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Pope Benedict calls for parish collaboration

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) – In a world that does not seem interested in hearing about God, effective communication of the faith requires a group effort, Pope Benedict XVI said.

When many people seem unable or unwilling to recognize the presence of God, “it is important that a pastor not be a ‘soloist,’ but be surrounded by believers who, along with him, are bearers of the seed of the word (of God) and help it live and grow,” the pope said during a visit March 29 to a Rome parish.

In addition to celebrating Mass at the Holy Face of Jesus Parish, the pope met with members of the parish council and with children preparing for their first Communion before he returned to the Vatican for the midday recitation of the Angelus prayer.

The pope told parish leaders, “The council is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and the pastor – and even more a pope – needs

Anticipating a full schedule of liturgies during Holy Week, Pope Benedict XVI, at right, celebrates Lenten Mass at Holy Face of Jesus Parish on the outskirts of Rome March 29. advice, needs help in making decisions.

And so these (parish) councils are also a work of the Holy Spirit and a witness to the Spirit’s presence in the church.”

Arriving at the parish, Pope Benedict noted that the sun was hidden from view by storm clouds, but everyone knew the sun was still there. In the same way, he said, “even though he is hidden, we know that God exists, he is near to us, he helps us and accompanies us.”

“Let us go toward Easter knowing

that suffering and difficulty are part of our lives, but knowing also that the sun of divine goodness” is always behind the clouds, he said.

Praising the parish Caritas program and the work of parishioners involved in the Community of Sant’Egidio, the pope said that especially at a time marked by a general social and economic crisis Catholics must make greater efforts to care for the poor and needy.

Returning to the Vatican for the midday

recitation of the Angelus, the pope was greeted by hundreds of African students studying at the pontifical universities in Rome who wanted to thank him for his March 17-23 visit to Africa.

Thanking the students for their support, Pope Benedict said he was especially struck by “the visible joy in the faces of the people, the joy of feeling part of the one family of God” and by the “strong sense of the sacred that one breathed during the liturgical celebrations” in Cameroon and Angola.

Archbishop’s Lenten Journal By the cross – Christ draws all of us to himself and eternal life “Sir, we should like to see Jesus.”

Twenty centuries ago, some Greeks visiting Jerusalem for Passover said that to Philip from Galilee. They may just have said it out of curiosity, but the words can sound very touching, very moving to us, here at Mass during Lent, and all those generations later. “Sir, we should like to see Jesus.” Amen to that. I would like to see Jesus. Wouldn’t you? To reach out and touch him? To listen to him teach?

To see him heal? To hear him tell us our sins are forgiven?

But what about those Greeks? Well, Philip consulted Andrew, the brother of Peter, and Andrew brought the request to Jesus. Then it gets really interesting: Jesus’ reaction is surprising – as we would expect, he doesn’t say “I can’t be bothered.” But neither does he simply say, “Sure, come on in, the more the merrier!” Instead, he starts to talk about his death on the Cross!

(Which of course is why we proclaim this reading toward the end of Lent, only two weeks before Easter Sunday.) The last

words of Jesus in the passage are: “…and I – once I am lifted up from the earth – will draw all people to myself.” Then the Gospel narrator comments: “This statement of his indicated the sort of death he was going to die.” John doesn’t want us to get the wrong idea about the phrase “lifted up”: Jesus is not referring to ascending to the Father; he’s referring to dying, crucified, on the Cross.

Why does Jesus emphasize the Cross?

Many people have been put off by the Cross of Christ. George Bernard Shaw said that there were things that were good in our religion, but the great flaw, as he saw it, was emphasizing the value of suffering: “Crosstianity” he called it. Some of our neighbors today see the cross as a symbol of shame, and cannot understand why we put crosses on our churches, and crucifixes inside them, and why we wear crosses on chains around our necks. Why the Cross?

The answer begins with God’s plan of salvation, and so do our readings today: God is speaking in that first reading through the prophet Jeremiah, to the Jewish people, who have disobeyed the written law which he gave them through Moses. God says: “I will make a new covenant” with the people.

This time the laws will not be written on stone; the relationship will be intimate, interior, within the people: “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts.” “All shall know me,” God says, “for

I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Immigrants’ children . . . . . . 3 ‘Catholics come home’ . . . . . 7 They talk to God . . . . . . . . . . 9 SVdP in Holy Land . . . . 14-15 Scripture & reflection. . . . . 18

Lenten vigil changes life ~ Pages 6-7 ~ April 3, 2009

Holy Week’s Easter Triduum ~ Pages 10-13 ~

‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ powerhouse ensemble ~ Page 20 ~

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Datebook of events . . . . . . . 21 SHCP wins state title . . . . . 24

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Jacob Rodriguez, a fourth grader at Holy Angels School in Colma shows off his mission project – Mission San Francisco de Solano – at Catholic Schools Week ceremonies Jan. 25.

Dominican Sister Leonarda Montealto is principal. Father Manuel Curso is pastor.

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I love reunions and Mercy High School, San Francisco is having one of my favorite kinds – the all-school reunion – April 18 at its 19th Avenue campus. “The 2009 All School Reunion is an occasion to come back to Mercy High School, San Francisco and see the changes that have taken place over the years, including the addition of the McAuley Pavilion, Guilfoyle Media Center and Chapel Renovation,” said principal, Dorothy McCrea. “Alumnae of Mercy High School San Francisco, former and current faculty and staff are welcome.” While class reunions are fun, for many they become just another night out but the all-school reunion is a new and all age groups. “Everyone is welcome,” Cindy said, noting that breed of catchin’-up that I find pretty interesting. My alma mater speakers have now been invited to address the unemployment issue.

- Wildwood Catholic at the Jersey shore – holds one annually and The group grew out of the parish Social Justice Committee of some of the class reunions are held within it which can also be which Cindy is a member. Providence and coincidence met in the a good idea. “I’m excited to visit with classmates and reminisce group’s establishment, she pointed out. “We try to address themes about our high school years,” Laurie Kerrigan, a 1974 graduate of the Church’s Social Justice teachings,” Cindy told me, noting that of Mercy told this column. “I think this will also give us a great when the economy and employment took downturns “the dignity of chance to network.” Methinks she has something there! Information work and the worker” was the committee’s next step. The meetings about the Mercy All-School Reunion is available from Teresa are based on “emotional and spiritual support and networking,” Cindy said. “This has Lucchese at (415) been a humbling and 334-0525, ext. 242 or gratifying experience tlucchese@mercyhs. for me,” she noted. For org.... Sorry to have more information, call missed teacher Chris the parish at (650) 366Mangini in the item 9544….“It is hard for about sixth graders me to imagine the parfrom St. Anne of the ish office without her Sunset Elementary cheerful voice, pleasant School and their trip to smile and her passion the Marin Headlands. for detailed tasks,” “Chris has been as said Msgr. Michael St. Anne’s for close Harriman, pastor, to 30 years now and about Betty O’Neill she is the person who Joan Swendsen, celebrates her 80th birthday Feb. 14 with a who has retired from initiated the program the St. Cecilia Parish with our students,” serenade from the San Francisco Cable Car Chorus. Joan has staff after 47 years of said fellow educator, been a parishioner of San Francisco’s St. Emydius for 70 years. “faithful service.” In Kathy Kelly, in a very thoughtful correction to this column…. Had the pleasure to speak a letter to the parish family Betty said, she has “felt a sense of with Cindy Gammer, coordinator of the Employment Support belonging to the parish” and is grateful for the “many wonderGroup at St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City. Meetings are ful friendships” she’s enjoyed through the almost five decades.

Monday mornings from 9 – 11 a.m. and Cindy said an effort is “Betty O’Neill will always be a part of our parish family,” Msgr. underway to hold once-a-month evening meetings for those who Harriman said. “Let us remember her in our prayers.”… This is an might be unable to attend the morning sessions. “Freefall” is how empty space without you! E-mail items and pictures to burket@ Cindy explained the first weeks of the ministry saying those attend- sfarchdiocese.org. Mail items and pictures to “Street”, One Peter ing just held onto one another as they spoke about the many dimen- Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg sions of unemployment and its effects. Some eight to twelve people at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone number. Call have been attending the meetings including both men and women me at (415) 614-5634 and I’ll walk you through it.

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Immigration focus; Detention and immigrants’ citizen children

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – A pair of reports released in March lay out some of the data behind efforts seeking changes in immigration policies, long before Congress gets around to considering another comprehensive immigration bill.

Their timing comes as religious leaders and advocates for immigrants in Congress and elsewhere are lobbying the Obama administration to end workplace raids and make changes in policies for deciding who is locked up and who is allowed to wait at home while their immigration cases are adjudicated.

Almost a year ago, St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Postville, Iowa, became a temporary home or at least a soup kitchen for hundreds of children, most of them U.S. citizens, whose parents had been arrested in an immigration raid at the town’s Agriprocessors meatpacking plant.

There, as in other communities hit by immigration crackdowns, families with one member facing deportation struggled with the decision to leave their U.S. citizen children behind in the only country they have ever known to be cared for by one parent or extended family.

The alternative chosen by some was to keep the family together and bring spouses and children born and raised in the U.S. to live in Guatemala, Mexico or El Salvador, where everything would be unfamiliar and life more difficult.

In one report on aspects of the country’s immigration muddle, the Urban Institute and a Minnesota-based law firm related dozens of stories of what are known as “mixed status” families, with one or more members subject to deportation, while others have legal residency or U.S. citizenship.

“Severing a Lifeline: The Neglect of Citizen Children in America’s Immigration Enforcement” described the chaos that some families encountered after a wage earner was arrested during large immigration raids in the last few years in Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi and Massachusetts.

It told of a second-grader in Worthington, Minn., who returned from school to find his 2-year-old brother alone.

The boys’ parents had been arrested in an immigration raid at a Swift & Co. plant and were unable to make provisions for someone to care for the children. The

boy took care of his brother alone for a week until their grandmother was able to take over caring for the two children, both U.S. citizens.

The report said that when “Miguel” returned to school his teacher told investigators from the Dorsey & Whitney law firm, which represents many immigrants, that the previously happy child had become “’absolutely catatonic.’

His attendance became spotty at best. His grades plummeted. At the end of the school year Miguel was not able to advance to the third grade with the rest of his class.”

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the population of about 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. includes the parents of about 3.1 million U.S. citizen children. The Urban Institute estimates that for every two adults arrested for suspected immigration violations, one U.S.-born child is affected.

“Severing a Lifeline” also described home raids in Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota and New York where sometimes dozens of heavily armed immigration agents identified themselves as “police” and swooped into homes. In the typically early-morning incidents cited, officers questioned, handcuffed and detained whoever happened to be in the home, including minors, even when the individual for whom they had a warrant was not present.

The report recommended immediate changes to policies such as the standards used to determine the best interests of citizen children with a parent facing deportation and how home raids are conducted when children are present.

Meanwhile, a report by Amnesty International USA, “Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA,” looks at immigration detention practices. It notes that the number of immigrants in detention tripled from 10,000 in 1996 to more than 30,000 in 2008.

At a cost of about $95 per person per day, the majority are held in state and county jails operating under contract to the U.S. government. Their length of detention can range from a few days to years, and 84 percent of immigration detainees are unable to arrange for an attorney to represent them, noted the report.

Because immigration law violations are civil offenses, people facing immigration charges are not entitled to legal representation regardless of ability to pay, as they would be in criminal courts.

Amnesty’s recommendations included legislative

U.S. Citizen Children of Immigrants A report highlights effects of immigration arrests and detention on the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants.

IN THE U.S., THERE ARE...

3.1 MILLION U.S citizen children of undocumented immigrants

4.9 MILLION children of undocumented immigrants

12 MILLION undocumented immigrants

NUMBER OF PEOPLE DAILY IN DETENTION 29,786 19,533 5,532 ‘94

7 YEARS 21 500,000 5,000

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current wait time for visas for Mexican spouses and children of legal U.S. residents age at which U.S. citizens may apply for their parents to have legal immigration status annual number of jobs for unskilled immigrant workers annual number of visas available for unskilled workers

Sources: Pew Hispanic Center, U.S. State Department, National Immigrant Justice Center

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remedies as well as policy changes, such as ensuring that affordable alternatives to detention are always considered, particularly for families with children.

Amnesty also urged the U.S. government to adopt human rights standards for all jails and detention centers being used for immigration detainees.

Family situations like those detailed in the reports are the focus of a series of interfaith prayer services being held around the country this spring, co-sponsored by local religious leaders and promoted by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. A comprehensive legislative approach to immigration problems could come up in Congress later this year.

Advocates for comprehensive reform have been working with congressional staff to draft legislation that could be introduced as soon as late summer.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican’s newspaper said experience supports Pope Benedict XVI’s comment that the distribution of condoms does not solve the problem of AIDS. The newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, ran a front-page commentary that defended the pope against the storm of criticism that followed his remarks in mid-March as he prepared to visit Africa. The idea that condom distribution can arrest the spread of the virus in Africa is an “ideological falsehood,” said the commentary.

Published March 22, it was written by Lucetta Scaraffia, a journalist and history professor who is a member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee. Scaraffia said World Health Organization studies show that the most effective anti-AIDS campaigns in Africa have been based on efforts to promote abstinence and fidelity in sexual relations. She said this fact has been quietly accepted in the scientific community, but that the “legend” continues about condoms saving Africa from AIDS. Having multiple sex partners drives HIV epidemics, whether they are primarily heterosexual or homosexual, Harvard AIDS researcher Edward Green said in a 2007 presentation to donors in South Africa. He said concurrent relationships have been found to be especially dangerous.

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Avoid Reiki therapy, bishops tell hospitals WASHINGTON (CNS) – Reiki therapy, an alternative medicine originating in Japan, is unscientific and inappropriate for use by Catholic hospitals, clinics and retreat centers and people representing the church, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine said March 26. “For a Catholic to believe in Reiki therapy presents insoluble problems,” the committee’s guidelines said. “In terms of caring for one’s physical health or the physical health of others, to employ a technique that has no scientific support (or even plausibility) is generally not prudent.” The bishops said the technique – which involves a Reiki practitioner laying hands on a client – also is encouraged as a “spiritual” kind of healing, but that for Christians “access to divine healing” comes through prayer to God. A Catholic who puts his or her trust in Reiki “would be operating in the realm of superstition,” they said.

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Father Ray Smith, military, hospital and retreat chaplain ordained in 1956 Father Ray Smith, who retired from active ministry in 2005, Catholic San Francisco. “He loved the outdoors, the country, his died March 30. He was 89 years old. A funeral Mass will be flowers and all the little things that constantly required care. He celebrated April 7 at 11 a.m. at St. Brendan’s Church in San loved his people, his pipe and especially the two religious women Francisco, where Father Smith served in 1956 and 1957 in his who assisted him in running the Silver Penny. Mercy Sister Mary first assignment as a priest.

Hope Sanchez and Mercy Sister Joanne De Vincenzo were the Father David Ghiorso, pastor of St. Charles Parish in San backbone of the Retreat Center. It was very difficult for all three Carlos, and who in an announcement of the priest’s death “credits of them to leave the Silver Penny when it was sold. I had the difFather Smith for steering him ficult task of informing them toward the priesthood” will that it was time.”

‘He was a gifted speaker and writer, be homilist.

Msgr. Schlitt continued, Father Ghiorso told “There were so many celCatholic San Francisco that noted for his intellect and clarity, and ebrations of life that took Father Smith was “Uncle place at the Silver Penny Rev” to him and his fam- had the deep respect and admiration because of Father Ray. All ily noting they have known of those people can now the priest since 1957 when of his chaplain colleagues’ celebrate his life as he returns he served at Church of the to his eternal home where Visitacion Parish in San – Bishop William Justice once again he can care for Francisco. the things he loved.”

“There have been a “I liked Ray very much,” couple of important people in my life and he was one,” Father said Father Edward Cleary, retired pastor of St. James Parish in Ghiorso said. “My vocation grew out of my knowing him and San Francisco. The two priests were ordained together in 1956 his example.” by then-Auxiliary Bishop Merlin Guilfoyle. “Archbishop Mitty Father Smith served as director of Silver Penny Ranch in was sick at the time,” Father Cleary recalled.

Petaluma for almost 20 years following 24 years as resident “His favorite pastime was gardening and he had a lot of chaplain at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. The opportunity to do that at Silver Penny,” Father Cleary rememcountryside estate served as a retreat site for archdiocesan and bered, noting he attended several days of recollection on the other groups until its sale in September 2005. Msgr. Harry Schlitt, idyllic grounds. vicar for administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, led “Ray and I got along very well,” Father Cleary said. ‘I’m very many retreats at Silver Penny. sorry to hear of his death but know now he is at peace. He was “Father Smith loved the Silver Penny Ranch,” Msgr. Schlitt told an excellent priest.”

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Way of the Cross in North Beach Organizers of the 10th annual Way of the Cross procession, to be held Good Friday April 10, expect as many as 300 people to participate.

Commemorating Jesus’ walk from the site of his condemnation by Pilate to Golgotha, the hill on which he was crucified, the march will begin at Coit Tower and proceed to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at Columbus Ave. and Vallejo St. in North Beach.

Lead organizer Martin Ford, head of the San Francisco community of Communion and Liberation, said the event’s steady growth has been remarkable.

“Five years ago we only had 20 people,” Ford said.

This year’s participants include Msgr. Labib

Kobti, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco, Father Robert Cipriano, rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis, and Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco William Justice.

The procession, which will take place between 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., will feature an abbreviated Stations of the Cross. Ford said the format and early morning schedule are planned in order to avoid competing with parish events.

“We want to encourage people to go to their churches for the full Way of the Cross,” Ford said.

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“He was a great priest,” said Les McDonald, executive director of the Real Property Support Group for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “He took care of Silver Penny like it was his own. Father Smith was a really fine guy. He loved nature, was kind and generous and a great man.”

“He was a gifted speaker and writer, well noted for his intellect and clarity, and had earned the deep respect and Father Ray Smith as admiration of his chaplain a young priest colleagues” Auxiliary Bishop William Justice, vicar for clergy, said in the announcement of Father Smith’s death. “Father Smith is particularly known for the groundbreaking work that he undertook in the certification and accreditation of hospital chaplains.”

Father Smith also served at San Francisco’s Church of the Visitacion and St. Anne of the Sunset and as an armed services chaplain reaching the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy. He earned a degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin entering St. Patrick’s Seminary in 1951 following service in the Navy during WW II and subsequent involvement in a family business in Carmel.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated April 14 at noon at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Notes of condolence may be sent to the late priest’s nephew, Stephen Smith, at 3424 N. Hackett Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211.

Holy Thursday collection for Gaza Catholics VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has decided the collection taken up at his Holy Thursday evening Mass will be used to help support the Catholic community in the Gaza Strip. Each year the pope chooses where to send the collection taken up during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Basilica of St. John Lateran,

the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome. Pope Benedict’s decision to use the collection from the Mass April 9 to support Catholics in Gaza was announced by the Vatican March 30. Each year the pope also asks a different person to write the meditations read during his Good Friday celebration of the Way of the Cross in Rome’s Colosseum. The meditations for the April 10 service were written

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‘40 Days for Life’ Volunteering at a pro-life vigil transforms a parishioner’s spiritual life

By Audrey Cabrera Amort Nunu Huhane has decided to become a hero for the unborn child.

The 43-year-old San Mateo city resident is volunteering at 40 Days for Life, a vigil in front of the Planned Parenthood in office San Mateo. He goes out seven days a week for two hours a day.

The vigil is part of an international Lenten event seeking to put an end to abortion. Participants pray, fast, maintain a daily presence and reach out to the community. There are 40 Days for Life vigils taking place in the United States, Canada, Australia and Northern Ireland, all organized and maintained by local community members. The campaign will conclude on Palm Sunday, April 5.

In San Francisco, a 40 Days vigil in front of the Planned Parenthood office on Eddy Street has continued every day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. since Ash Wednesday.

The vigil averages four people a day and ranges from one to 16 – with more than 100 individuals participating overall.

“It’s about prayer and it’s about loving the people,” said St. Dominic parishioner Hunt Hanover, a coordinator of San Francisco vigil with Star of the Sea parishioner Ron Konopaski. “The main thing is letting the people going in and out of Planned Parenthood know that they have an alternative, that we’re praying for them and that God loves them. We’re also praying for people who work in the abortion facility.”

The vigil has been peaceful but not uneventful.

“Some people honk and give us the thumbs up,” Hanover said. “Other people give us the middle finger and yell at us.”

Hanover said no one seeking an abortion has turned back as a result of the vigil. But the 40 Days national campaign keeps a running count of women who have had a change of heart at all vigils throughout the coun-

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Shawn Carney, national director of ’40 Days for Life’ visited the San Francisco vigil outside Planned Parenthood on March 21.

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Huhane takes his part very seriously and has been invited to speak about his experience at Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park. “By sharing my experience with them, it does make it clear to them that there is a great urgency for us to step up and do something,” he said.

Raised by his grandparents in Tonga, Huhane immigrated to the United States when he was 16. He has been a parishioner of St. Matthew in San Mateo for the last 26 years. “I’ve been pro-life my whole life,” he said.

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His grandparents instilled in him his deep Catholic faith. Yet he was not always open to communicating it.

“It was hard for me to even discuss (abortion),” Huhane said. He was constantly surrounded by prochoice people, at school, at home and among friends and family.

His involvement in the pro-life movement went as far as walking in the annual Walk for Life West Coast whenever he could and successfully counseling two mothers to stop the abortion of their children. With the outcome of the recent elections, he got angry and began to seek positive ways to channel that energy.

While watching the Walk for Life in Washington, D.C., on EWTN he got his rush of inspiration. He was impressed by an interview with Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.

Father Pavone noted the inauguration of President Obama and called pro-lifers to action. Huhane said he felt like the words were directed at him.

So when he had the opportunity to meet Father Pavone this year at the 5th annual Walk for Life West Coast, he did not miss his chance. He told the priest how his words had snapped him out of his complacency.

“I found out about 40 Days for Life,” Huhane said.

“I signed up the whole 40 days, of course. Three days later I thought, what was I thinking?”

He said his experience has made him humble and enriched his Lenten season. His sacrifice for Lent, which is volunteering at the vigil, has transformed his spiritual life, he said.

Huhane has been attending Mass daily and attending Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after work before heading to Planned Parenthood to pray. He has become active in San Mateo Pro-Life, a group he had signed up for years ago but had never attended any meetings.

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Media effort draws 92,000 inactive Catholics back home to church

By Ambria Hammel PHOENIX (CNS) – An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics in the Phoenix Diocese have come back to the Church in the last year thanks in large part to a groundbreaking television advertising campaign called Catholics Come Home.

The promotional spots featured people and locations from around the Phoenix Diocese to promote the Church during prime-time television. The cornerstone of the campaign, the Catholics Come Home website, addresses often misunderstood aspects of the faith. “For those who had fallen away from the practice of their faith, it let them know that we want them to come home,� Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said.

The commercials, which ran during Lent in 2008, detail the good works of the Catholic Church throughout history. They also offer real-life testimonials of local fallen-away Catholics explaining what turned them away and what drew them back. “Phoenix was supposed to be this quiet little test,� said Tom Peterson, a former resident of Phoenix who is president and founder of Catholics Come Home, which is now based in Georgia. “Word went worldwide as soon as it was launched,� he said in an interview.

More than half a million different visitors from all 50 states and 80 countries have visited the website, www.catholicscomehome.com since the spots first aired.

The response was so positive that other dioceses around the country are looking to Phoenix for ideas on bringing Catholics back to the Church.

The Diocese of Corpus Christi in Texas recently launched

different versions of the television spots in English and Spanish.

Each parish supplemented the commercials at Ash Wednesday services with a brochure for everyone answering common faithrelated questions and listing Mass times and ministries.

The Catholics Come Home spots will appear in more than a dozen other dioceses around the country later in 2009 or early 2010. By the time Advent rolls around in 2010, organizers say they’ll go national on major networks. “Our family is made up of every race,� begins the longest of the spots. “We are young and old, rich and poor, men and women, sinners and saints.�

The two-minute ad highlights the vital part the Catholic Church has played in establishing hospitals, orphanages and schools in addition to its role in science, marriage, family life, Scripture and sacraments. “If you’ve been away from the Catholic Church, we invite you to take another look,� the announcer says toward the end. “We are Catholic; welcome home.�

Another two-minute ad shows men and women alone watching the best and the worst scenes from their lives play back before them on an old movie reel.

The final ad that aired – Peterson has dozens more like it ready to go – featured snippets of testimonials about why Catholics left the Church and what they found upon their return.

Peterson said the Catholics Come Home campaign has “the potential of re-Christianizing our society and even catechizing the world.�

A lot of pro bono production, nearly $1 million from various donors and foundations, and a grant from the Catholic Community Foundation helped put the ads on the air.

The Diocese of Phoenix has witnessed increased interest

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Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, right, with St. Matthew parishioner Nunu Huhane, at the 5th Annual Walk for Life in San Francisco last Jan. 24.

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“Now my family knows that I am standing out there,� he said. “I used to worry about stuff like that and I said I will never stand out there, and here I am finding myself doing something I never pictured myself ever doing.�

He realizes as the 40 days go by that he is comfortable crusading for an end to abortion. He prays for all those people that drive by and see the pro-life signs the volunteers are holding and show no reaction.

He said he hopes they will experience a change of heart and realize that life begins at conception.

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Hanning worked closely with Peterson on the Catholics Come Home campaign and ensured that parish leaders, especially those in faith formation, were ready to welcome back Catholics and resolve sacramental and doctrinal issues. More than 25 parishes created programs to welcome Catholics back to the church. For example, one parish showed a video before Easter Masses and held a six-week program for returning Catholics. “The commercials helped (fallen-away Catholics) realize that they were missing something in their lives,� said Father John Bonavitacola, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Tempe. He noticed that Catholics who had grown lax in their faith or who felt hurt by the church, or who had divorced and remarried, returned. Many had their marriage validated in the church while others joined for the first time.

Six months after the media campaign ended, a comprehensive analysis of its impact revealed a 22 percent increase in Mass attendance at nine sample parishes. Throughout the diocese, the average increased Mass attendance – returned and new Catholics – was 12 percent. That’s despite a flat population growth in the diocese during that period. “Wherever they’ve been, they can come back home. It’s a message that resonates,� Hanning said. “I never thought I’d have thousands of Catholics calling and e-mailing me and saying, ‘I’m proud to be Catholic and I want to help others.’�

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Peace tools: Caritas provides nuts and bolts of conflict resolution

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The object of an arm-wrestling game is to get as many points as possible by pushing your partner’s fist down on the table – but it doesn’t matter how many points your partner gets.

Will players figure out they can amass more points by cooperating and simply make quick, alternating wins rather than by competing and duking it out through brute force?

The game, called Popeye, is one of scores of activities that make up a new Web tool kit created by Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for 162 national Catholic charities around the world.

The tool kit is an online resource for peace-building workshops aimed at helping individuals and local communities overcome prejudice, trauma, fear and hatred bred by episodes of violence or years of conflict.

The “Peacebuilding: Web Toolkit for Trainers” is located online at http://peacebuilding.caritas.org and is dedicated to slain Archbishop Oscar A. Romero of San Salvador. Caritas Internationalis launched the site on the anniversary of his assassination March 24.

The archbishop was an “outspoken champion of peace, justice and human rights in El Salvador. His life and martyrdom (have) been an inspiration to the work of Caritas and beyond,” the organization said in a written press release on the eve of the launch.

The more than 200-page Web tool kit is culled from “the best peace-building materials published” and was edited to be Webfriendly and hosted on an interactive Wiki platform, said Patrick Nicholson, head of communications for Caritas Internationalis.

Users can pick and choose from a large selection of activi-

ties, handouts, case studies and resources for teaching skills in nonviolence, negotiation and peacefully integrating people from diverse religious, ethnic or other backgrounds.

The tool kit was designed for people involved in grass-roots peace-building, although aid workers in zones of conflict may find the materials helpful, too.

Users can craft their own training workshops and build their own Web sites, as well as “upload new resources, share and rate content, and take part in online discussions,” Nicholson said.

“It’s the most comprehensive tool available on the Web for designing peace-building workshops” and should be an invaluable resource not just for Caritas members, but all local, governmental and international organizations working for peace, he said.

The peace-building concept has become crucial in an age in which the nature of war and conflict has changed.

Almost two-thirds of all current conflicts are “identity conflicts,” Caritas says in “Peace-building: A Caritas Training Manual” – a veritable bible for peace-builders first published in 2002.

In the past, most major conflicts were triggered by territorial ambitions and fought in contained theaters of war. Today it’s more likely the enemy isn’t a far-away, foreign army but a fellow citizen or neighbor.

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The Rwandan and the Balkan cleansing campaigns were alarming signs that peace-building had to become a priority, it says.

When outward hostilities have ended, the roots of war will remain unless the broken relationships between groups and among individuals are restored, it added.

People need help to come to terms with a tragic and painful past, accept shared responsibility and forge a new mutual understanding, the manual says.

Caritas and its partners, in fact, work on both levels – healing hearts and minds while providing emergency and development aid.

For example, in Rwanda the local Caritas agency provided psychological counseling for women raped during the genocide campaign and helped them build new homes.

If the women were to heal from their trauma, they also needed to improve their living conditions and change the setting of where that trauma took place, Caritas says on its Web site.

Besides causing unfathomable psychological damage, war is also the mortal enemy of development, it says, citing a Swahili proverb: “When the elephants fight, it’s the grass that gets trampled.”

That is why Caritas and the church have found ways to ground their development projects on a foundation of building peace, justice and reconciliation.

Chances are better that the infrastructure will last when citizens learn how to channel hostile feelings in nonviolent ways and reform unjust systems and institutions that fuel resentment, says Caritas.

Preventing conflicts from escalating out of control is something Caritas and its partners work on, too.

For example, the overcrowded camps sheltering tens of thousands of people escaping violence in western Sudan’s Darfur region have become a breeding ground for stress, boredom and personal disputes.

Caritas partners trained groups of camp residents to help peacefully solve problems and arguments between young people, married couples and other individuals, before they erupt into something bigger.

A camp peace-builder named Sheik Ali told Caritas, “We can use the methods we have learned in the training to solve any problem.

“We have to use it in the future, such as when we return to our homes, so as to co-exist peacefully again with our neighbors.

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“They love to talk to God” Missionaries lead SF State campus ministry devoted to prayer and Scripture reflection

By Audrey Cabrera Amort This past Valentine’s Day some students at San Francisco State University had dinner together and took in a movie. It was nothing all that unusual, perhaps. But then the young adults ended the evening in a different and very quiet way: with a spiritual reflection and an exchange of prayer journals.

Many students said it was their best Valentine’s Day ever.

The students were young adult Catholic members of the San Francisco State Newman Club. The Valentine’s Day socializing and prayerful finish was organized by the young sisters of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, which has five novices and 16 missionaries with vows in its San Francisco community and has led the SF State Catholic campus ministry since 2004.

The combination of fun and prayer exemplified the fraternity’s spirituality and students’ attraction to the sisters’ Scripture-based charism in a world saturated with media.

“What I sense is that they learn through these moments, and through the retreats, how to be silent,” said Sister Su Fern Khoo, VDMF, the full-time campus minister. “And not only that, but they love the silence and they never thought they loved it.

“They love to talk to God,” she said, “and they never thought that they could because they couldn’t be silent.”

Slowly, it seems, students realize they can be without their iPods. They realize that silence is not only acceptable but also enjoyable.

“It’s very uniting,” said senior Barbara Quigley, 23, who comes to the club for the fellowship and a sense of common belief. “I find a lot of solidarity in it and strength in it, to be honest with you.”

Chelsa Salvani, 18, a freshman majoring in business, likes the club’s comforting sense of family. She also said the group is helping her grow in her spirituality: “(I am) finally taking the initiative myself to learn about my faith and to grow in faith.”

Verbum Dei spirituality is centered on the Word of God. Scripture is the group’s daily nourishment – it is what they pray, study, live, celebrate and announce to every person.

Under the fraternity’s direction, the 15 to 20 active Newman Club members now integrate a moment of reflection with their community service projects. Their main activity is a weekly reflection, called Scripture Bytes. Through the fraternity, they have also instituted an Ash Wednesday Mass on campus and an interfaith peace and justice concert.

Formed in Spain in 1963, the fraternity describes itself as “an international family extending to and embracing people of all states and areas of life, united with one and the same charism

Members of the Newman Club at San Francisco State University gathered Ash Wednesday for a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William Justice and organized by students and sisters of the Verbum Dei Missionary Community. Standing, left to right: Sister Sara Postlethwaite, VDMF; Sister Karla Felix, VDMF; Sister Evelyn Wong, VDMF; Ben Rosado; Yadira Zendejas; Will Fenton; Chelsa Salvani; Stephanie Gomez; Sister Su Fern Khoo, VDMF; Eirene Rocha; Sister Rosanna Monini, VDMF; Mary Jansen, director of the Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Seated, left to right: Barbara Quigley; Monsignor Labib Kobti, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish; Auxiliary Bishop Justice; Norma Hernandez.

and mission. We seek to be a clear expression of the Kingdom of God, building up Christian communities of living faith, through prayer, witness of life, and the ministry of the Word.”

The fraternity received a boost in 2007 when Pope Benedict XVI encouraged the missionaries “to continue on their path with determination, following Christ closely and cooperating with the evangelizing mission of the Church.”

Members of the fraternity draw the strength to do what they do from the command in the Gospel of St. Matthew: ‘Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.’

“The only thing I expect, or hope rather, is that (students) grow in their relationship with God,” Fern said.

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that the young adults discover God and take Him wherever life leads them.

“It’s like what Teresa of Avila said, when you teach someone to pray you save their life, because God can go with them everywhere,” Sister Su Fern said.

Sister Su Fern describes the campus ministry as a “ministry of presence.” She means that she is simply there for the students to talk or to listen.

The club’s social activities include potluck meals, movies, bonfires and hiking retreats in Muir Woods. But amid all the fun are moments to be enriched spiritually.

“We try to lead them to some other moment where they can have a deeper moment of prayer,” Sister Su Fern said.

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EASTER LITURGIES Easter Triduum: Heart of the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liturgy, highlight of its year

By Father Bruce Morrill, S.J.

HOLY THURSDAY Perhaps the biggest ritual clue on Holy Thursday that we are no longer in the Season of Lent comes early in the Evening Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper, when the assembled faithful sing the Gloria, accompanied by the festive ringing of bells. The Church raises its heart in joyous praise to God for the incomparable gift of the Eucharist, which Jesus bequeathed to us as the everlasting memorial of his life, death, and resurrection. At every Eucharist, the gathered Church encounters Christ in the mystery of Word and Sacrament until he comes again in glory. In the special annual commemoration of the first Eucharist, the Church manifests the meaning of Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sacramental presence in terms of charity, love, and service to one another. The gospel reading is Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; washing his discipleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet. At the conclusion of the homily, the presiding minister washes the feet of several people from the assembly. The inextricable bond between worshiping God in the Eucharist and worshiping God through our daily lives is further highlighted at the beginning of the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The assembly takes up a collection exclusively for the poor and, as the altar table is set, sings the ancient, traditional hymn for this liturgy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Charity and Love Are Found, There Is God.â&#x20AC;?

ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK CATHOLIC CHURCH 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco (415) 468-3434

2009 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Palm Sunday - April 5 Regular Sunday Schedule: 8:45AM Spanish, 10:30AM Gospel Mass

Holy Thursday - April 9 Mass of the Last Supper 7:30PM followed by Adoration

Good Friday - April 10

(CNS PHOTO /GIAMPIERO SPOSITO, REUTERS)

While Roman Catholics would seem to be universally aware of Lentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start with Ash Wednesday, chances are that vast numbers would stumble on this question, assumingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; incorrectlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that Lent ends with the arrival of Easter Sunday.

On the contrary, Lent is over when the Church begins its celebration of the Evening Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper on Holy Thursday night. With this Mass the Church enters into a three-day liturgy, one great liturgical symphony with several movements spanning Friday, Saturday, and ending with evening prayer (vespers) on Easter Sunday. The Easter Triduum (three days) comprises the most important ritual act of worship the Church does and, thus, constitutes the highlight of the liturgical year. In the course of the liturgies of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil, the people of God participate with solemn festivity in the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most intense expression of the paschal mystery, that is, the revelation of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; passing over from death into new life as the source and pattern of our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI washes the feet of 12 laymen during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008.

That our celebration of the Easter Triduum is one long, continuous liturgy becomes markedly evident in the way the Evening Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper concludes with the transfer of the Holy Eucharist to a special chapel of reservation.

Adequate supplies of the body of Christ are consecrated on Holy Thursday evening to provide for communion on Good Friday, a day when the Church does not celebrate Mass, as well as to be able to minister the Eucharist as viaticum, should any of the faithful approach death in the coming two days.

People may stay on Thursday night to pray and meditate before the reserved Blessed Sacrament, with the opportunity to do so continuing through the following day. Good Friday is a solemn day of fasting, in penitential reverence for Christ in his suffering and death. In confirming this great fast the Second Vatican Council also encouraged those faithful who are able to continue it through Holy Saturday. The latter is an act not only of personal piety but also of solidarity with the Elect, who are keeping watch for their initiation into the Easter Sacraments (baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist) at EASTER TRIDUUM, page 11 the Easter Vigil.

St. Charles Church

8 8 0 Ta m a r a c k Av e n u e , S a n C a r l o s , C A 9 4 0 7 0 Phone: 650.591.7349

April 8

April 9

Wednesday 8pm Tenebrae

Holy Thursday 7pm Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper

April 10

April 11

Good Friday Services 12 noon - 3pm 7pm Stations of the Cross

Easter Vigil 8pm Rite of Initiation Baptism Confirmation and Eucharist

Good Friday Service at Noon (English) Servicio de Viernes Santo a las 7:00PM

April 12

Easter Sunday

Easter

7:30, 9:00 & 11:30am Mass (no evening Mass)

Vigil at 8PM 8:45PM Spanish, 10:30AM Gospel Mass

CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION 1111 Gough St., San Francisco â&#x20AC;˘ Tel: (415) 567-2020

HOLY WEEK & EASTER TRIDUUM SCHEDULE 2009 In preparation for Holy Week and the Easter Triduum

Palm Sunday of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passion Vigil Mass: Saturday, April 4, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday Masses: April 5, 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Mass Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. Misa en espaĂąol

Chrism Mass Tuesday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.

(Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop) Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the Easter Triduum Confessions will not be heard during the Easter Triduum

Holy Thursday April 9, 7:30 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper, Washing of Feet, followed

by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 p.m.

11:45 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall

Good Friday We continue our Vigiling . . . .

April 10, 12:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross led by the students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, CA Music in the Cathedral 12:30 p.m.

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ST. EMYDIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH 286 Ashton Ave. / 415-587-7066 (DeMonfort Ave. / 1 Block from Ocean Ave.)

THE TRIDUUM

Holy Saturday

Thursday, April 9 â&#x2014;&#x2020; Holy Thursday Dinner in the Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Center 6:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper 7:00 p.m.

Adoration until midnight

Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night...

April 11 The Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion of our Elect.

Friday, April 10 Morning Prayer Liturgical Service

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1:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant NO CONFESSIONS TODAY Las Siete Palabras de Jesus en La Cruz: 7:00 p.m.

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Holy Saturday 8:30 a.m.

8:00 p.m.

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Easter Sunday 6:30 a.m.

8: 30 & 10:30 a.m.

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GOOD FRIDAY As already indicated, the liturgy on Good Friday afternoon or evening is not a Mass. It is, rather, a celebration of the Lord’s Passion, an act of solemn intercession for the Church and the world, and a ritual of veneration of the Cross as the tree of life, our salvation. The Liturgy of the Word begins abruptly in silence and prayer.

To the proclamation of Christ’s Passion,

Father Arturo Albano, pastor of Mission Dolores Basilica, leads a group in praying the Stations of the Cross at the basilica March 27.

(CNS PHOTO/COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY, ART RESOURCE)

(ARNE FOLKEDAL/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

EASTER LITURGIES

the Church responds with ten profound intercessions, taking an extended amount of time on its knees to bring a Church and world so much in need of God’s grace confidently to the God whose grace has been revealed as boundless mercy and forgiveness in Christ. Human reverence for this divine mystery overflows in ritual, as the assembly approaches one large cross brought into its midst and venerates it with kisses or other gestures. Holy Communion is shared before departing in silence. The liturgy of the Easter Triduum continues.

EASTER TRIDUUM, page 12

Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You! Wednesday, April 8th, 9am - 7pm - All Day Reconciliation Various Confessors will be available throughout the day for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.

Holy Thursday, April 9th Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with strings & woodwinds

Good Friday, April 10th Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30pm with choir, woodwinds and timpani

Saturday, April 11th Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds

Easter Sunday, April 12th Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds

1025 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco (415) 487-8560 www.saintagnessf.com Parking is available in our lots on Oak Street between Ashbury & Masonic.

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HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH 39th Avenue & Lawton St., San Francisco, California 2009 HOLY WEEK SERVICES Saturday, April 4 Confessions 4:30-5:00 PM April 6, 7, 8 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7:30 & 9:00 AM Masses in the Chapel Wednesday, April 8 Benediction 7:15 PM (Chapel) Tenebrae Service of Light in the Church 8:00 PM 7:30 PM 9:00-11:00 PM

A Parish that Welcomes & Reaches Out A Parish that Prays & Worships Together A Parish that Celebrates & Reconciles

Lent and Holy Week

Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue (near Stonestown) www.saintstephenSF.org

Weekday Masses during Lent 8:00 am & 12:10 pm Palm Sunday Mass Reconciliation, Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30 pm 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm Spy Wednesday Reconciliation Service 7:00 pm

415.681.2444

Saint Stephen Catholic Church

Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm Good Friday (No morning Mass) Afternoon Vigil/Liturgy, Noon-3:00 pm Prayer around the Cross, 7:30 pm Holy Saturday (No morning Mass) Reconciliation, 3:30-4:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass, 7:30 pm Easter Sunday Mass 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm

Holy Thursday, April 9 Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel

Good Friday, April 10 No morning Service 12:00 to 1:00 PM Stations of the Cross Performed by the 8th graders of Holy Name School 1:15 to 2:00 PM Meditations on the Seven Last Words 2:00 PM Solemn Liturgical Service includes Veneration of the Cross and Communion Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM Holy Saturday, April 11 No morning service.

4:00-5:00 PM – Confessions (No 5:00 PM Mass) 8:15 PM Solemn Easter Vigil Mass Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults

7:30 AM

Christ crucified is shown in this detail of an altarpiece from the Abbey of Liesborn in Germany dated around 1470. The painting is a holding of the National Gallery of London.

Easter Sunday, April 12 Masses in the Church 3 PM Vietnamese 9:30 AM 11:30 AM 5:15

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 5th Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. ; Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., and at the 11:30 a.m. Mass we will have a solemn Procession.

Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.

Holy Thursday, April 9th 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m. – All the priests

Good Friday, April 10th 12:00-1:00 p.m. – Sacrament of Penance (Confession) 12:00-1:30 p.m. – “Witnesses to Christ” led by Fr. Joseph Landi 1:45-3:00 p.m. – Solemn Liturgy – Fr. Elias Salomon (The eighth graders will act out the chanted Passion, Holy Communion and Veneration)

Holy Saturday, April 11th 3:30-4:30 p.m. – Sacrament of Penance 8:00 p.m.

– Easter Vigil Mass – Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra)

Easter Sunday, April 12th 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. –

Fr. Elias Salomon Msgr. Maurice McCormick (Family Mass) Fr. Joseph Landi (with Choir and Orchestra)

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EASTER LITURGIES Easter Triduum . . .

EASTER VIGIL On Holy Saturday night the Easter Vigil is precisely that—a night-watch for the dawning of salvation in Christ’s resurrection. For this reason, the Vigil is to start after dark (well after sunset). Comprised of four consecutive liturgies, the Vigil is the greatest ritual act of worship in the Church’s year—the climax of the Triduum.

The Vigil begins solemnly with the Service of Light.

Gathered outside, the Church blesses a great fire, powerfully drawing all into the primordial origins of creation and redemption, light dispelling darkness, Word creating world, Christ the Alpha (the world’s origin) and the Omega (its end). The faithful process into the church building, each carrying candles lit from the one flame of Christ, and settle in for the Liturgy of the Word A series of seven Old Testament readings, each followed by a psalm and prayer, narrates the history of salvation. The Gloria is then sung to the ringing of bells, followed by the proclamation of St. Paul’s famous description (in Romans) of baptism as our dying with Christ so as to rise with him.

Alleluias greet the Gospel reading and preaching.

Then follows the Liturgy of Baptism, the profound sacramental moment for the Elect who finally pass through the waters of death into life, are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit in the oil of chrism, and lead the assembly to the Table of the Eucharist. The Liturgy of the Eucharist is bright with the joy of the newly baptized sharing for the first time in the sacramental body and blood of the Lord. Done robustly and beautifully, the Easter Vigil can last up to several hours.

During Easter Day most parishes celebrate one or more Masses. While the Easter Triduum closes with the celebration of Vespers or Evening Prayer on Sunday, this liturgy of psalms and canticles has yet to be recovered widely in the life of the American Catholic Church.

Jesuit Father Bruce Morrill teaches in the Department of Theology at Boston College.

Cathedral Chrism Mass, April 7 All of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited to attend the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Blvd and Gough St., on Tuesday, April 7, at 5:30 p.m. At the Chrism Mass, the precious oils to be used in the archdiocese throughout the year in sacraments and for anointing are blessed.

At the Chrism Mass, priests of the archdiocese also renew their ordination commitment, while receiving the prayers and support of the faithful. San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer and Auxiliary Bishops Ignatius Wang and William Justice will concelebrate Mass with archdiocesan priests.

(CNS PHOTO BY CHRIS SHERIDAN)

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St. Thomas More Church 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways

A woman closes her eyes in prayer during the Easter Vigil. One of the oldest Christian observances, the vigil is a nocturnal watch held Holy Saturday to celebrate Christ’s victory over death.

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday, April 4 - 3:30 PM Monday, April 6 - 7:00 PM

Holy Thursday - April 9 6:30 pm Parish soup supper - Bedford Hall 8:00 pm Mass of The Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the School Library until 10:00 PM

Good Friday - April 10 Noon - 12:45 pm Stations of the Cross (Presented by St. Gabriel School Students) 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Good Friday Reflections 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion ******************* 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday - April 11 8:00 PM - Celebration of the Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday - April 12 Easter Sunday Masses 7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, 10:05 am - (Bedford Hall), 11:30 am & 5:30 pm

There will be a 5:30 pm mass on Easter Sunday.

PASCHAL TRIDUUM

Holy Thursday (April 9th)

Easter 2009 Holy Week Schedule

8:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (English) 10:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Arabic)

Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Palm Sunday, April 5

Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm Sunday - 8am, 9am, (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4pm Evening Prayer and Benediction

Holy Thursday, April 9

Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30pm (Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)

Good Friday, April 10

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30pm

Holy Saturday, April 11

Confessions - 3:30pm to 5pm No 5pm Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30pm

Easter Sunday, April 12 Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) 12 noon No Evening Mass

~ The Paschal Triduum in Westlake ~

Holy Week Schedule

7:00 p.m. Penitential Ceremony & Confessions (All Communities)*

St. Monica Parish

St. Gabriel Church Our Lady of Mercy Parish • 2559 - 40th Avenue San Francisco, CA. 94116

San Francisco (415) 452-9634 www.stmchurch.com Holy Wednesday (April 8th)

5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City

Between South Mayfair and Southgate Avenues, with plenty of free parking!

Good Friday (April 10th) 9:00 AM Way of the Cross (in city: starts at Coit Tower, winds down the hill to the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo @ Columbus. Ends at 12 Noon.)

12 Noon Way of the Cross (@ STM) 1:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (English) 9:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (Arabic)

Holy Saturday (April 11th) 8:00 PM Easter Vigil (English) 10:00 PM Easter Vigil (Arabic), followed by Alleluia greetings in Carroll Hall

EASTER SUNDAY (March 23rd) 8:00 AM Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass for all communities*, followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 8:00 PM Mass (English)

**No Arabic Mass on Easter Sunday *Parents must accompany their children.

St. Anthony of Padua 1000 Cambridge St., Novato 415.883.2177

2009 Holy Week and Easter Schedule Palm Sunday

K Holy Thursday, April 9 : 9:00 a.m. — Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. — Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. — Eucharistic Adoration

April 5, 2009 Vigil - Saturday at 5:00pm Masses at 7:00am, 9:00am, 11am Palms distributed at each Mass

K Good Friday, April 10 : 9:00 a.m. — Morning Prayer 12:00 p.m. — Good Friday Prayer Service 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. — Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, with Veneration of the Cross

April 9, 2009 Agape Dinner - 6pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 7:30pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm

K Holy Saturday, April 11 : 9:00 a.m. — Morning Prayer 8:00 p.m. — Easter Vigil Mass K Easter Sunday, April 12 : 7:30 a.m. — Easter Mass 9:00 a.m. — Easter Mass 10:30 a.m. — Easter Mass with our Children’s Choir 12:00 p.m. — Easter Mass with our Parish Choir

Holy Thursday

Good Friday

April 10, 2009 Confessions - 10am to 10:45am Youth Group Living Stations - 12 noon Good Friday Service - 1pm to 3pm Youth Group Living Stations - 7pm

Holy Saturday

April 11, 2009 Confessions - 4pm to 5pm Easter Vigil - 8pm

Easter Sunday

April 12, 2009 Masses at 7am 9am and 11am in Church 9am and 11 am in Hall

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EASTER LITURGIES Local clergy and religious participate in national video programming In the month of April and beyond, clergy, religious and laity from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will participate in a national program designed to deliver daily Scripture reflections on the U.S. Conference of Bishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website.

To view a daily Scripture reflection, visit www.usccb.org and click on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Readings,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Video Reflections.â&#x20AC;? The reflections also can be accessed at the website www. ccc-tv.org.

Reflections by clergy and religious of the Archdiocese of San Francisco include the following April dates and participants: April 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Father William Nicholas, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, Novato; April 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Father Joseph Landi, parochial vicar, St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco; April 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salesian Father Armand Oliveri, parochial vicar, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco; April 11 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Father Ulysses Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aquila, pastor, St. Kevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parish, San Francisco; April 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Msgr. Harry Schlitt, archdiocesan vicar for administration; April 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Father Paul Warren, pastor, St. Teresa, San Francisco; April 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dominican Sister Pat Farrell, vocation minister/promoter of preaching, Dominican Sisters of San Rafael; April 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dominican Sister Carla Kovack, associate director of Campus Ministry, Dominican University of California; April 25 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno, retreat director/spiritual director; April 28 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paulist Father Charles

Kullmann, pastor, Old St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral; The daily video reflection program is a collaborative effort of the U.S. Bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Catholic Communication Campaign and the Offices of Communications at participating dioceses throughout the country.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco was one of the first to participate in the program, which began in 2007. The current reflections represent the second time the archdiocese has participated.

Streaming video offerings have been expanded to include daily reflections, interviews and stories of faith that offer a range of engaging multimedia content. The new features give visitors the opportunity to experience the rich tapestry of Catholic faith from diverse perspectives and learn about the activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Church across the country, said Ellen McCloskey, director of production for the CCC. The project is funded by the Catholic Communication Campaign, an activity of the USCCB that develops media programming, projects, and resources that promote Gospel values. The work of the CCC is made possible by the donations of Catholic parishioners from across the country to the CCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual appeal. Proceeds from this collection are divided equally between each diocese and the CCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national office in Washington, DC. In addition to spiritual reflections and insights, CCC-TV (www.ccc-tv.org), which can be downloaded, now offers a â&#x20AC;&#x153;One-on-Oneâ&#x20AC;? section where bishops and USCCB staff discuss the work of the

Conference and the Church. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faith Worksâ&#x20AC;? shares the many ways the faithful are living the Gospel. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teaching Cornerâ&#x20AC;? informs people about faith, sacraments,

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET

Saint Church Saint Veronica Veronica Church

850 Judah Street (bet. Funston & 14th Ave.) (415) 665-1600 www.stanne-sf.org

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2009 EASTER SERVICES HOLY THURSDAY, April 9th 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 12 Midnight GOOD FRIDAY, April 10th 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 12 noon The Seven Last Words (Reflections) 1:30 p.m. Celebration of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passion 3:00-4:00 p.m. & 6:30-7:30 p.m. Confessions 7:30 p.m. Community Stations of the Cross (led by Parish Youth Group) HOLY SATURDAY, April 11th 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer (Chanted) 9:15-10:00 a.m. Confessions EASTER VIGIL at 8 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, April 12th 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 (Family Mass) a.m. Sung Masses (English) 12 Noon in Cantonese DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY, April 19th 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Masses and 12 Noon in Cantonese 2:00 p.m. Devotion to the Divine Mercy (Adoration, Confessions, Chaplet, Reflections & Benediction)

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EASTER LITURGIES St. Vincent de Paul Society helps Holy Land families survive tragedies BIR ZEIT, West Bank (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Issam Shaheen always will remember Christmas Day 2008 as the day he stopped being able to support his family. On that day, Shaheen, 43, and his six family members were involved in a car accident.

Though seriously injured, all six members of the family survived; their medical bills have been covered by the insurance of the driver who rammed his truck into the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car. Transportation costs to Ramallah to reach the hospital and rehabilitation clinic are not covered, Shaheen said.

Shaheen, whose right hip was shattered, can no longer work as a taxi driver, put food on the table and pay his childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school fees. He depends on his older son to help him in the little falafel stand he started as a side business years ago to supplement his driving income. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is frustrating to need to ask for help,â&#x20AC;? said Shaheen, who needs crutches or a wheelchair to get around. His 7-year-old son, Amir, attends the Catholic school at Bir Zeitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Immaculate Conception Parish, and his school fees must be paid.

Although it frustrated Shaheen to seek help, he turned to the Bir Zeit branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

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Easter Schedule Easter Confessions Deanery Penance Service at Mater Dolorosa Thursday, April 2nd at 7:30pm Individual Confessions: Saturday, April 4th from 4:15 to 4:45pm

Palm Sunday, April 5th Vigil Mass: Saturday, April 4 at 5pm Sunday Masses at 8am, 10am & 12 Noon Palms will be distributed after all the Masses

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week Mass at 8am 7:30pm Wednesday Evening

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Blessing of palms at all masses.

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Morning Prayer 7:00 p.m.

Evening Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper with washing of feet.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

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Morning Prayer Stations of the Cross Seven Last Words Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion with dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students.

4:00-5:00 p.m. Confessions CONCLUSION OF ALL COMMUNAL LITURGIES HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 11:00-Noon Confessions 3:30-5:00 p.m. Confessions EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

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1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish) HOLY SATURDAY - April 11 8:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil EASTER SUNDAY - April 12 5:45 a.m. In front of Church, Salubong: Meeting of Jesus and Mary Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 8:45 (Spanish), 10:45 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

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Parish Penance Service with the opportunity for individual confessions. 7:15pm

Holy Thursday, April 9

Palm Sunday - April 5

Tuesday of Holy Week - April 7 Holy Thursday - April 9

Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper 7:30 p.m. Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight

Soup Supper 6:00 in the hall. Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper 7:30 p.m., concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

Good Friday, April 10

Good Friday service begins at Noon, which includes Good Friday Liturgical celebration of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passion.

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Holy Saturday, April 11 10:00 p.m.1st Mass of Easter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; English

8am, 10am and 12 Noon (Easter Egg Drawing for all the children in the Parish Hall after the 10am Mass).

HOLY THURSDAY - April 9 Masses: 12:05 p.m.

7:00 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper Procession to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight

The blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday 5:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.) Palms distributed at all Masses.

8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Spanish

Easter Sunday Masses

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EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. NO 5:00 p.m. Mass.

Good Friday, April 10th

Easter Sunday, April 12

Walking in Bir Zeit, West Bank, March 22 are Issa Alloush, left, secretary of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Labib Eid, chairman of the St. Vincent De Paul Society. The St. Vincent de Paul Society offers assistance to needy people in several Palestinian towns and in Jerusalem.

Easter Sunday, April 12 7:30 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; English 9:30 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Spanish 12:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bi-lingual

Good Friday - April 10

Opportunity for private confessions between 12:15 and 1:30

Holy Saturday - April 11

The Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of the Easter Candle. The Vigil Mass also includes the blessing of the Easter Water.

Easter Sunday - April 12

Masses are 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

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ficult times but now need assistance, said Labib Eid, chairman of the Bir Zeit branch of the society.

“We are well-known so everyone turns to us,” he said. “We have the Palestinian Authority here, but they are paralyzed and can’t help.”

The St. Vincent de Paul Society also has branches in the West Bank cities of Jifna and Ramallah and in Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem branch also has assisted Gaza residents after the recent war with Israel.

The society provides needy Christian families with food, clothes and monetary help. It also provides elderly care, helps families pay tuition and medical care and helps with the costs of weddings, baptisms and burials.

In Bir Zeit alone, the number of Christian families the St. Vincent de Paul Society has helped in the past three years has doubled from 75 to 150, said Eid. The branches are financially stretched, Eid said, adding that he wished the society could do more for Shaheen and his family.

Traditionally, Palestinian families have helped each other, but in the current economic situation that rarely is possible, said Eid. The extended Shaheen family is facing particularly difficult problems. Shaheen’s older brother, Nabil, 62, has struggled for 10 years with chronic pulmonary disease as a result of years of heavy smoking.

A former carpenter, he now is dependent on donations to pay for the 45 pills he must take daily and the various inhalers on which his life depends. After two of his oxygen tanks broke, he borrowed one because of the cost to replace them.

Eid said the society’s funds are spread out to provide assistance to as many families as possible. Sometimes the soci-

ety can only give a symbolic amount of money. So while Nabil Shaheen’s pills cost about $220 a month, the society can only provide him with $120-$240 a year, he said.

There is no governmental health care plan in the Palestinian territories, and Nabil Shaheen was able to pay for insurance until three years ago. The majority of uninsured Palestinians ignore their health issues because they are unable to pay for medical care.

Such was the case with Fahim Sayej’s 55-year-old sister, Mariam, who had diabetes and died earlier this year. Four years ago, the 54-year-old Sayej, who worked as a tailor, had a stroke, which left him paralyzed on one side and unable to talk.

His wife, Loudy, 45, took care of both of them, dependent on donations from the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the parish priest, Father Azaz Halaweh.

“I am thankful for the help but I feel very bad having to ask. We were independent and not used to needing help,” said Loudy Sayej.

The situation throughout the rest of the West Bank and Jerusalem is the same, said Diana Safieh, national president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. With foreign donors feeling the economic crunch, donations are shrinking, and the services the local branches provide are in danger.

“The whole situation all over the world is awful,” Safieh said. “With the financial problems, people are left without work and donations have become scarce. Thank God we still have local people who give.”

For example, each Lent Holy Family Catholic Parish in Ramallah asks parishioners to bring in donations of nonperishable food items to be given to the society.

“Whatever we are fasting from we have to give to the poor,” said the parish priest, Father Aktham Hijazin. “If I am fasting, it also means I am giving something. What I don’t eat belongs to God and so I can give it to others. It makes the fast more meaningful.”

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Good Friday

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Stations of the Cross

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Fahim Sayeh, 54, is given medicine by his wife and caretaker, Loudy, 45, in their house in Bir Zeit, West Bank, March 22.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Guest Commentary Helping poor farmers cultivate markets, income

By Ken Hackett A few years ago, Catholic Relief Services was looking for ways to help farmers in Tanzania and our staff came up with a project to combine microfinance savings groups with agricultural promotion. With private donations, CRS started the Chickpea Market Promotion project. It had a modest goal of forming 10 groups that would each pool and collectively sell their chickpea harvests as a marketable export crop.

To say the least, the project has exceeded expectations. To this point, 3,800 poor farmers have organized into 149 groups. This helped them to access microfinance support through their involvement in savings groups, as well as assistance in production and marketing of their crops.

This resulted in a considerable rise in income for these farm families.

This is one example of a shift to a market-based approach to agriculture that we are embracing at Catholic Relief Services. For more than half a century, CRS has supported extremely poor people living in agricultural communities throughout the developing world. In all of our programs around the world, whether we are serving people suffering from a disaster or emergency, or helping them to lift themselves out of grinding poverty and chronic hunger, our aim is to move people and communities from relief to development and self-sufficiency. In fostering the transition from relief to development, our focus was on increasing agricultural production, with the goal of restoring the ability of farm families to feed themselves.

This approach still is necessary and valid. But over time, we observed that helping poor farm families to increase the amount of food they grow is not sufficient to help them escape poverty. Farm families have needs that go beyond food. They need health care, education for their children, housing improvements and investment in their farming activities – things they can get only with sufficient cash income. We came to the conclusion that understanding markets and building the ability of poor farmers to engage in profitable enterprises had to become an integral part of our approach to agricultural development.

That is why CRS is launching a groundbreaking worldwide agricultural strategy that adopts a market-oriented approach to help lift millions of people out of poverty.

The strategy reflects the views of field staff, partners and the private sector from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, captured during meetings over the past year. The strategy addresses market reform, urbanization and technical innovations. It also considers the emerging challenges posed by more volatile social, economic and climatic conditions that come from an increasingly populated, globalized and urbanized world.

This market-oriented emphasis already is bearing fruit, as CRS is seeing results from several exciting projects launched over the past few years: - In Tanzania, farmers have organized themselves into microfinance self-help groups, enabling them to obtain financing to pay for chickpea seed, fertilizer and postharvest marketing. This linkage between microfinance and agriculture has not only made the local farmers’ groups much stronger, but it has also significantly improved their profits.

- In Ethiopia, farmers have begun growing navy beans and have found a buyer in one of the top sellers of baked beans in England.

- Across West Africa, CRS is helping to increase rice production, which will help that region to feed its people and be less dependent on rice imports.

- In East Africa, we are working to integrate technology into crop disease prevention, using sturdy but inexpensive laptop computers to gather vital data in the field.

These projects are a small—but very promising beginning. It is our hope that by working with a wide range of partners and food companies, both here in the United States and overseas, we will eventually be able to fuel entrepreneurial initiatives that will improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.

Ken Hackett is president of Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community. CRS provides assistance to people in need in more than 100 countries. More information is available at www.crs.org.

Making a difference This Sunday April 5 marks the close of our first “40 Days for Life” campaign in San Mateo County. This is part of a national campaign to end abortion and it is being held simultaneously in over 100 cities across America. It consists of 40 days of prayer, fasting and a prayerful vigil from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in front of the local abortion facility, which in San Mateo is at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. At the beginning, one observer scoffed that we would never have enough people to staff a vigil. Yet the number has continuously ranged from two to 20 people, with more than 250 who have come so far. And it has been very effective.

In February, a clinic staff person said to one participant, “Why don’t you pray at home? You’re making our work here difficult!” One passing driver stopped and said, “I’m an atheist, and even I know that abortion is wrong.”

Another driver stopped and donated $50 to help. In fact, the majority of people driving by gave thumbs up, honks, and friendly waves. Of course there were also some who had rude fingers and nasty comments, but vigil participants offer up these sufferings for the pro-life cause. Moreover, many visitors to the abortion facility accepted important prolife information through pamphlets and/ or discussions. And so far there has been one baby confirmed saved from abortion, and two others believed saved! Participants say that the 40 Days campaign has been a very positive experience.

Jessica Munn Foster City

Find it in Datebook The Serra Club of San Francisco has been getting additional guests for our luncheons and these have been people who have read about our programs in Catholic San Francisco’s Datebook. Thank you. We get together to enjoy prayer, lunch and a speaker. We welcome members and nonmembers. Our next luncheon is April 9.

As it’s been said, “See Datebook.”

Paul Crudo San Francisco

Where are they now?

More to say Some honeymoon that George Wesolek had with President Obama! After 60 days he is disillusioned by Obama doing what he said he would do during the campaign, namely reversing the “Mexico City Policy” (as Clinton did after Bush 1), and removing the ban on further federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

While it is regrettable that the president is on the wrong side of these and the abortion issue, several points need to be made.

First abortion is not the only life issue. An illegal and immoral pre-emptive war has made thousands of Iraqi children just as dead

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Encourage one another How agonizing it was to see the three sergeants and one police officer gunned down in Oakland. They were four amazing men, with devoted, loving, young families who served others their entire lives. It was hate that killed them.

When will all people understand that words have great power; the power to kill – or the power to give life? Uncharitable words about the police could have triggered this hatred. How many of us use words loosely?

Our Church teaches, and rightly so, that God is love and that He dwells in every person. Jesus teaches us to love our enemies. That is why we should never pray that our enemies die, rather, we should pray for their conversion. Whoever gives in to hostile words and deadly violence are doing the work of Satan. Remember that the adversary cannot give us peace.

Jesus died a painful death to prove His great love for all mankind. We need to prove our love and gratitude for Him by putting a stop to hateful words and actions. When we have differences of opinion we should express ourselves with mutual respect. “Encourage each other daily, while it is still today.”

Claire Rogus, OPL San Mateo

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Thank you George Wesolek for your commentary in Catholic San Francisco (‘The honeymoon is over,’ CSF March 20).

It was like I was hearing myself. I too was criticized and ridiculed by good Catholic friends of mine for voting for John McCain, knowing very well that my candidate for the presidency had no chance whatsoever here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I also wondered, “Where are my good Catholic friends now that our president turned out to be the most radical pro-abortion president in the history of the United States?”

Their silence is deafening. May the Good Lord bless you and your loved ones, Mr. Wesolek, for fighting the good fight in saving the lives of the most precious among us – the unborn.

August C. Pijma.

Redwood City

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as those torn from their mother’s womb.

Mr. Wesolek has the President advocating abortion as “one of our solutions to grinding global poverty.” On the contrary the president’s premise is that poverty is a major cause of high abortion rates, and in no way does abortion offer a solution.

Accordingly, Obama has pledged a renewed effort to eradicate poverty and ignorance as contributing factors – a goal that is in keeping with the social concerns of the Church. We will need to see if there is a significant reduction in the abortion rate in the next four years compared to previous administrations which proclaimed themselves pro-life.

Robert M. Rowden, M.D. San Rafael

Criticism misplaced

Robert Johnson’s criticism of John Noonan’s book (CSF March 20) “A Church that Can and Cannot Change,” is misplaced on two counts. The first is Mr. Johnson’s failure to distinguish between doctrines which are malum prohibitum or malum in se, but not both. Slavery, usury, religious freedom and divorce involve matters which are not always inherently evil or malum in se.

Hence, the Church lifted its ban on them. Mr. Johnson also undertook to criticize the Jesuits, as if they were somehow responsible for what he conceives to be misplaced doctrine. In support of his position, he quotes St. Paul as being critical of the Jesuits. As St. Paul was in the first century and the Society of Jesus was not formed until 1540, it would be difficult, even for St. Paul, to be critical of the order or its teachings.

Jerome F. Downs San Francisco

Social justice issue I read with interest George Wesolek’s “Guest Commentary” in the March 20 issue of Catholic San Francisco. He is to be complimented. Abortion is, as Mr. Wesolek states, “the pre-eminent social justice issue of our day.”

The United States, “one nation under God” cannot tolerate the killing of a helpless, voiceless unborn child without grave consequences.

There is no evidence that President Obama’s views today on abortion or embryonic stem cell research are in any way different from what they were before he began his campaign for the office he now holds. His campaign silence on these matters speaks volumes; his silence was correctly understood by those favoring abortion as pro-abortion and pro-embryonic stem cell research. He avoided taking any position on controversial legislation while a United Sates senator by voting “present.” I would like to add that the president’s conduct during his campaign for the presidency focused on “hope” and “change,” words which could mean different things to those who heard them. He was never challenged to define them.

Paul M Hupf Daly City

April 3, 2009

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The Catholic Difference

Sisters on a different mountaintop On Jan. 30, an apostolic visitation of religious orders of women in the United States was announced. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), whose membership includes most of the sisters whose manner of life and apostolates will be explored, subsequently released a measured statement, expressing its “surprise” at the Vaticanmandated visitation. The LCWR statement also hinted vaguely at a degree of alarm, noting that the visitation’s “purposes and implications for the lives of U.S. women religious remain unclear.”

A far more forthright comment on the visitation came from Sister Sandra Schneiders, IHM, who teaches New Testament at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and is completing a multi-volume study of post-Vatican II religious life. Dr. Schneiders’ letter on the visitation was originally intended for friends and colleagues; it inevitably leaked into the blogosphere and was then published with Dr. Schneiders’ permission in the online National Catholic Reporter. There was nothing vague about Dr. Schneiders’ reaction to the impending visitation: “I am not inclined to get into too much of a panic about this investigation – which is what it is. We just went through a similar investigation of seminaries, equally aggressive and dishonest. I do not put any credence at all in the claim that this is friendly, transparent, aimed to be helpful, etc. It is a hostile move and the conclusions are already in. It is meant to be intimidating. But I think if we believe in what we are

doing (and I definitely do), we just have to be peacefully about our business, which is announcing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, fostering the Reign of God in this world.

“We cannot, of course, keep them from investigating.

But we can receive them, politely and kindly, for what they are, uninvited guests who should be received in the parlor, not given the run of the house. When people ask questions they shouldn’t ask, the questions should be answered accordingly. I just hope we will not, as we American religious so often do, think that by total ‘openness’ and efforts to ‘dialogue’ we are going to bring about mutual understanding and acceptance. This is not mutual and it is not a dialogue.

The investigators are not coming to understand – believe me, we found that out in the seminary investigation. So let’s be honest but reserved, supply no ammunition that can be aimed at us, be non-violent even in the face of violence, but not be naive. Non-violent resistance is what finally works as we’ve found out in so many arenas.”

Between the circumspection of the LCWR and the callto-arms of Sister Sandra Schneiders, I’ll take Dr. Schneider’s any day. Hers is perhaps the most candid summation of the cast of mind of many American religious women I’ve read in years. What it avoids, however, is the clear implication of Dr. Schneiders’ use of “them” to identity the “investigators:” “them” are not, so to speak, “us.” “We” are not of, or with, “them.” “Them” reminds me of the Master of Trinity in Chariots of Fire, speaking of a Cambridge student whose

approach to athletics (and indeed life) he deplored: “A different god; a different mountaintop.”

What Sister Sandra Schneiders’ admirably frank letter suggests is that the women religious George Weigel who share her views live in a form of schism. It’s not a formal, canonical schism. One might call it a kind of psychological schism, in which the outward forms of ecclesial unity are tenuously maintained, but the inner “self” (as these renewed sisters might put it) is, well, somewhere else.

The balance of Dr. Schneider’s letter argues that she and her colleagues have “birthed a new form of religious life,” and makes clear that she and those who stand with her will accept no one’s appraisal of the Catholic authenticity of their creation but their own. That’s an accurate, honest description of the current state of affairs. It also bespeaks a form of schism. Will the impending visitation take a cue from Dr. Schneiders and have the courage to name these things for what they are? And if so, then what?

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Potpourri

The prayer that prays itself Long before I discovered the ritualistic wonders of the Byzantine Catholic Church, I ran across the ancient Jesus Prayer in J.D. Salinger’s novella, “Franny and Zooey.” In this story Franny Glass goes up to Yale for a football weekend with her boyfriend. While they’re having lunch she rushes to the ladies’ room, where one of her bouts of anxiety is assuaged by repeating, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner” – over and over again.

The Jesus Prayer becomes Franny’s lifeline until her older brother, Zooey, accuses her of only using it as a mantra to remedy her panic attacks. Cutting through the enormous spiritual complexities of the Jesus Prayer, Salinger pulls out the purest essence of its meaning by having Zooey wrap it up for Franny this way: “You miss the whole point of the prayer, by restricting it just to get some kind of organized cant.” he tells her. “The Jesus Prayer has one aim; to endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness.”

The Jesus Prayer, also known as the “Prayer of the Heart,” has its origins in the Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic tradition. It was offered by the Desert Fathers of

the Eastern Church in their spiritual treatise, the Philocalia, as a logical response to Saint Paul’s urgent appeal to pray unceasingly. (1Thessalonians 5:l5) The rhapsodic writings on the Jesus Prayer by the Desert Father, Hesychius the Theologian, can be likened to frozen music: “We should always be turning the Name of Jesus Christ round the spaces of our heart as lightning circles round the skies before rain. Thereafter comes the circling sun and, at last, like the sun, comes Jesus, radiant and with truth, both revealing himself and illuminating our contemplation with his all-brilliant rays.”

Other Desert Fathers give instructions on how to say the Jesus Prayer with your lips until it becomes self-active and when, as Salinger’s Franny describes it, “the words get synchronized with your heartbeats and you’re actually praying without ceasing.”

Throughout the novella, Franny refers to “The Way of a Pilgrim,” an anonymous work about a little Russian peasant pilgrim, who walks all over Russia trying to fulfill Saint Paul’s constant-prayer challenge. The pilgrim finally meets

a starets (a wise old man of prayer), who teaches him the simple power of the Jesus Prayer.

Centuries ago, the Desert Fathers used the Prayer of the Heart to attain the summit of spiritual heights. In our Jane L. Sears own age, J.D. Salinger’s use of the Jesus Prayer attests to its enormous influence on those who contemplate its deceptive simplicity of prayer- without- ceasing as the Holy Spirit himself prays constantly within us.

The time for the spiritually priceless Jesus Prayer to be prayed and pondered is now, where in the spaces of our hearts – it will pray continuously.

Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a member of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame.

Spirituality for Life

Spirituality and sexuality A common complaint about the classical Christian teachings on sexuality is that so many of these have been written by vowed celibates, unmarried priests and nuns who do not have sex. The complaint is not that these people (and I am one of them) teach something that is wrong but that, not being married, they invariably tend to over-idealize sex and encase it in unrealistic sacred romance.

No doubt there is some truth to this. But, in fairness, everyone struggles with sexuality. Every religious tradition has its struggles with sexuality and so does every culture.

No self-respecting theologian would say that Christianity or any other religion has made full peace with sexuality, just as no self-respecting analyst would say that there exists in this world a culture that has come to a healthy peace with sexuality. Religion and the world both struggle with sex, just in different ways. Everyone struggles.

And this is no accident because sexuality is always partially beyond us, too powerful to always healthily contain. In this life nobody comes to full peace with it. It is too powerful and too wide. It lies at the base of everything, life and non-life alike. Molecules are sexed, atoms are sexed, all life is sexed, and every human person is sexed in every cell, body and soul. Much of this, of course, is inchoate, dark, a longing and an aching without an explicit focus, though from puberty onwards it also has a focus and deeply colors every person’s consciousness.

Ironically it is on this point, the failure to take the centrality of sexuality seriously enough, where liberals and

conservatives concur, conservatives by denying that centrality and liberals by trivializing it. Both tend to be naïve, just in different ways.

Moreover, beyond the sheer, brute power of sexuality there is still its complexity. Sexuality is both the most creative and the most destructive force on the planet. It is a great force not just for heroic love, life, and blessing but also for the worst hate, death, and destruction imaginable. It is responsible for most ecstasies on the planet, but also for a lot of murders and suicides. When healthy, it helps glue personalities together, when unhealthy, it works at disintegrating personalities. It can unite families and communities and it can also destroy them. It is a unique power to mellow the heart and produce gratitude even as it has equal power to make the heart bitter and jealous. It is the best of all fires and the most dangerous of all fires.

And this paradox is what lies at the root of so many of the tensions that surround any discussion on sex. On any given day, which aspect of sexuality should be emphasized?

Purity or passion, its goodness or its dangers, its power to trigger ecstasy or its power to produce murder, its sacramental power to unite or its chaotic power to divide?

Because these questions are not easy to answer, what we often see are two opposing tendencies: the temptation to over-idealize and the temptation to trivialize, the temptation to be too fearful and the temptation to be too casual, the temptation to be unhealthily frigid and the temptation to be unhealthily irresponsible. We rarely get it right. Invariably

the symbolic hedge is too high or too low.

How to we find a balance? Not easily. But, as with all complex issues, a good starting point is the refusal to compromise either of its paradoxical poles, to sell out any of Father its truths, no matter how Ron Rolheiser apparently contradictory.

So it is important to admit that sex is a power beyond us even as we accept that we have a responsibility to control it. Its goodness must always be affirmed even as its dangers are highlighted. Its holy, sacred character should always be taught even as its earthiness should never be denigrated. We must be clear that it is meant to be sacramental even as it is meant to be playful, that it is meant to bring children into this world even as it is meant to express love, that it is meant to be healthily enjoyed even as it needs to be carefully guarded, and that it is not something before which we should stand in unhealthy fear even as we surround it with enough taboos to properly safeguard its meaning and our own emotional safety.

Sexuality might be compared to a high-voltage electrical wire. The 50,000 volts inside of that wire can bring light and heat to a building, but there are two risks: First, we may ROLHEISER, page 19

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a welltrained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.

But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

A READING FROM THE LETTER TO OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS PHIL 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted In the poem “The Donkey,” G. K. Chesterton makes the animal tell its own tale of lifelong suffering. On account of events of Palm Sunday, however, its much-maligned existence is not without a redeeming feature. The donkey has finally a reason to strike back: “Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears, and palms before my feet.”

Jesus lifts up the lowly donkey to be the vehicle by which he will ride into the gathering storm. The donkey becomes a symbol of peace that Jesus wishes to bring about, despite impending violence and bloodshed. Instead of riding on a war horse, Jesus comes as the king of peace--the only way he knows to be king.

Entering Jerusalem not on the back of power and prestige, but in humility and simplicity, Jesus is determined to accomplish his Father’s mission. This entry rustles with palms and resonates with hosannas, but passion is not far away.

The tide will turn. The journey will finish Jesus off, but for him who identifies with his Father totally, it cannot, in the final analysis, be a doomed mission.

For Jesus, suffering is the only way to glory. Later, he will remind his disciples: “Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” (Lk 24: 26). The suffering servant in Isaiah, prefiguring Jesus, subjects himself to abuse. Though humiliated by people, he knows that God will never forsake him.

Like the psalmist, Jesus, too, cries out

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OF THE LORD’S PASSION Ezekiel 33:7-9; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 18:15-20 him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 15:1-39

Now on the occasion of the feast he used to release to them one prisoner whom they requested. A man called Barabbas was then in prison along with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion. The crowd came forward and began to ask him to do for them as he was accustomed. Pilate answered, “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” For he knew that it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.

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A woman touches the hand of Jesus on the cross in a mosaic in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, which is built on the site traditionally accepted as the burial place of Christ.

As soon as morning came, the chief priests with the elders and the scribes, that is, the whole Sanhedrin held a council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

He said to him in reply, “You say so.”

The chief priests accused him of many things. Again Pilate questioned him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they accuse you of.” Jesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead. Pilate again said to them in reply, “Then what do you want me to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?” They shouted again, “Crucify him.” Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” They only shouted the louder, “Crucify him.” So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged,

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

Entering Jesus’ suffering gives us solace and transcendence on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” In his terrible loneliness, a profoundly spiritual suffering, Jesus’ physical and psychological pain is intensified. Jesus knows human condition. Now he can not only identify with suffering and injustice, but also free us from it.

In the memorable hymn in the Philippians, through humility and obedience, Jesus becomes human and dies on the cross. But God raises and exalts him.

The long passion narrative in the brief gospel of Mark indicates the emphasis on Jesus’ suffering: the betrayal and abandonment, cruelty and contempt. Our suffering aligned with that of Jesus cannot be in vain.

As we step into the Holy Week, we enter the last days of Jesus’ life, fortified with some spiritual dispositions related to our daily struggles of being human and Christian.

First, there is no one immune to suffering, not even the Son of God. We encounter disease, death, disasters, and despair.

Hatred and violence unleash unimaginable affliction. Poverty and hunger drive people to agony. Because of Holy Week events, we know that Jesus knows our suffering.

Whenever we alleviate suffering, we stand with Jesus in his mission.

Second, Jesus suffers out of love. Love makes suffering not only bearable but also redeemable. Without love, suffering is empty and meaningless. The cross is

handed him over to be crucified.

The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort. They clothed him in purple and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him. They began to salute him with, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him. They knelt before him in homage. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him. They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

They brought him to the place of Golgotha – which is translated Place of the Skull – They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it. Then they crucified him and divided his garments by casting lots for them to see what each should take.

It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” With him they crucified two revolutionaries, one on his right and one on his left. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself by coming down from the cross.” Likewise the chief priests, with the scribes, mocked him among themselves and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also kept abusing him.

At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “Look, he is calling Elijah.” One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink saying, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.” Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.

Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion who stood facing him saw how he breathed his last he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” a violent symbol, but because of love, it becomes a positive symbol of new life.

Those who love know how to take suffering; those who are capable of suffering are those who are capable of love.

Third, the inevitability of our death causes anxiety and anguish, taking a toll on our lives. It removes our dear ones from our physical realm. Jesus’ death leading to resurrection is the best answer to our encounter with death. To Christians, it is the only answer. Death itself is destroyed, thanks to the resurrection of Jesus.

Fourth, everyone grapples with desire.

It can lead us to happiness or sadness.

Jesus too had desire: he did not want to suffer and die. However, he dislocated his desire into that of his Father. His desire is now the survival---and salvation---of humans. Going beyond our pleasures and pursuits, we learn to direct desire toward the needs of others. If we can turn desire into service, we are being Christ-like.

Finally, through contemplation we can walk with Jesus in the Holy Week.

Bringing our senses, imagination, and heart, we stay with Jesus, not merely saying a lot of prayers, but being silent and still, feeling his presence, looking at his face, delving into his heart, knowing his anguish, entering his distress, being there for him. By entering Jesus’ suffering, we make sense of the human predicament and encounter transcendence.

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Church in South San Francisco.

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Our Lenten Journey: It’s that whole human thing Ancient, medieval and contemporary theologians have devised various vocabularies for expressing the meaning and necessity of Jesus’ death: Sacrificial Atonement, Divine Victory, Propitiation and Penal Substitution, among others.

But perhaps there is a simple, less esoteric, explanation that might help us appreciate and learn more from the living and dying of Jesus.

We tend to think of Jesus on the cross as “The sinless Son of God dying for sinful men.” Yes, there was the sinless Jesus, and there is the sinfulness of humankind. Even renowned atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins would find it hard to dispute the well-documented goodness of Jesus and the self-destructive behavior of humans. But, if we look only at generic “sin” and the self-effacing death of Jesus in a simple cause and effect equation, we all too easily miss some complex truths about Jesus, and of humanity, truths that lie at the core of the powerful experiences we celebrate during Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum It may just too easy to think of Jesus on the cross as “God dying for us.” As beautiful and poetically compelling the thought of the Creator God dying for His creatures may be, we forget that is was not just the God essence of Jesus that died on the cross. It also was Jesus, the man.

This was the man who grew from innocent child to adolescent, who got calluses and splinters in his father’s carpentry shop; The man who lived, loved and laughed with his friends, friends whom he trusted and by whom he was ultimately denied and betrayed; The fully divine, fully human man who

felt every emotion that we feel. The man who summoned every ounce of his human compassion to forgive the very murderers who executed him, and to welcome the criminal crucified beside him into his compassionate embrace.

Of course God would forgive his executioners and welcome criminals into his company–that’s what God does.

But we are left too easily off the hook if we see the forgiveness and compassion with which Jesus lived and died as merely divine, super-human acts. It was the beaten, tortured man who forgave his betrayers, his torturers; not some faceless, “ethereal divine essence” that pardoned his tormentors. Jesus’ forgiveness was not a super-human act–it was a fully-human act, a choice made by a human to not retaliate, to not seek revenge. A choice placed before us as the ultimate test of our true discipleship. A path that we know humans can walk, because Jesus, the human, did walk it.

So again, the question: Why did Jesus have to die? Does the answer have to be purely “theological?” Could it be simply that death is what happens when humans become pawns in socio-political struggles orchestrated by other humans who seek only their own advancement and who are willing to use any form of torture and violence to achieve it?

And when we think of “the sin of mankind” as the cause of Jesus’ death, we again let ourselves off way too easily.

Rolheiser . . .

and safely encased in proper insulation, otherwise we risk a deadly fire, inside the house and inside the psyche.

Conservatives tend to struggle with the first danger, liberals with the latter.

Acknowledging only some generic sin doesn’t really challenge us to look at the very specific sins that brought about Jesus’ death.

Was it Adam who sent Roman legions to Palestine to subdue, occupy and oppressively tax the Jewish people who themselves had spent centuries trying to subdue and occupy their neighbors, all for the sole purpose of supporting the lifestyle of their nation on the backs of another?

Was it Eve who instilled in the religious leaders of Jesus’ time an incendiary jealousy of the genuine authority and simple authenticity with which he spoke? Was it an original sin that made Judas think for a moment that Jesus’ mission of forgiveness and reconciliation was just too impractical in the “real world?” Was it some ancient human/divine debt that caused a crowd to say on one Sunday, “Hail, Son of David” – and later that week “Crucify him?”

If we focus on the debt Jesus paid for Adam’s archetypal transgression, we are pretty much spectators, out of the equation, except to say “Hey, thanks, Jesus, for the Redemption and all...good job!” Perhaps the challenge of Holy Week is for us to not simply profess that Jesus died for the generic sinfulness of humanity, but to bold-facedly call ourselves on the very specific sins of subjugation, exploitation, powerclinging, practicality-reverencing and conviction-waffling.

With that essential humility, we may truly rise from the culture of death which we Catholics so frequently bemoan, to build a true culture of life which takes the living, dying and rising of Jesus as a model of how we move not only to our divine essence, but to our most truly human. Perhaps God didn’t send his son so that we mortals could act more divine. Maybe the Son took on flesh, lived, and died to show us how to be more human.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.

Rob Grant is a 30-year veteran of parish ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

n Continued from page 17 be so afraid of its dangers that we never connect our house to it. We then deprive ourselves of its light and heat. The second danger is the opposite: This powerful energy is safe only if its raw power is channeled through the right transformers

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How will God do this? Certainly not the way you or I might imagine! “My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts,” God said to us through Isaiah, one of his prophets. We might imagine that God would conquer sin and death for us in some quick, easy, painless way; but no, God in Christ Jesus conquers sin and death by meeting them head on, meeting them on their own terms, not by waving a wand over them, like some larger version of Glenda, the Good Witch, in The Wizard of Oz. That’s why Jesus, in his life and in his death, is such a contradiction: he turns upside down our deepest clichés about reality: conquerors arrive on horseback, and great leaders ride in limousines. Not Jesus. Jesus says that only through death does life come about, and he gives the example of the grain of wheat, which must fall to the earth and “die” to its old way of being just a seed, before it can produce a great harvest. By letting sin and death do their worst to him on Calvary, and then conquering them on Easter as the Father raises him to eternal life, Jesus gains the only lasting victory of forgiveness and divine life, which he can then share with all peoples of all times. And the lesson for us is plain: if we would follow him, would belong to him, we must die to selfishness and

self-centeredness, and let him live his life within us.

Jesus deepens and extends this lesson: “The man who loves his life loses it, while the man who hates his life in this world preserves it to life eternal.” How can that be? How can spending your life be the only way to keep it? Actually, this paradox makes spiritual common sense. Where would our world be without women and men who risked, and even forgot, their personal comfort and security and even safety, for the sake of others?

Where would families be, without mothers and fathers who do that every day? Think about those four police officers in Oakland who gave their lives to protect the people of that city. We are all tempted sometimes to act like selfish people, but none of us ever want to be around other selfish people. One writer has observed: “The world owes everything to people who recklessly spent their strength and gave themselves to God and to others. No doubt we will exist longer if we take things easily, if we avoid all strain, if we sit by the fire and conserve life, if we look after ourselves the way a hypochondriac looks after his health. No doubt we will exist longer - but we will never live.” To be followers of Christ is to sacrifice ourselves for the love of others, and that is the only part not eternal life, the Savior tells us. ”We should like to see Jesus.” In that second reading, St. Paul shows us Jesus – in the Garden of Gethsemane, on Holy Thursday night: “In the days when Christ was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to God…” Then St. Paul shows us Jesus, our Savior, on the Cross:

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“Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and…he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.”

It is easier to look at Jesus carrying a little lamb, with white, fleecy clouds in the background, than it is to look at Jesus on the Cross. But neither your life nor mine consists merely of little lambs and white, fleecy clouds. Of course, Jesus is the Lord of all the moments in our lives, and we need him in every one of them. But in moments of temptation and sinfulness, in times of conflict and pain, suffering and loss, in moments of disappointment and seeming hopelessness, we need him most.

And, because of the Cross, on which he shared those moments with us, now, in those moments, he is most powerfully present in our lives, in our hearts.

Let sin and death do their worst to us, Jesus brings us through, as His Father brought Him through, and raised Him up. The Sacraments are moments in which he gives us a share in his eternal life, feeds us with his risen body and blood, forgives our sins. “Sir, we should like to see Jesus.” Then gaze upon the Cross, because he is true to his word: he has been lifted up from the earth, and he draws all of us to himself, through suffering and forgiveness to Easter joy and risen life.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered this homily at St. Mary’s Cathedral on March 29, 2009, the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

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As the opening scenes recount, the once-ordinary Susan became a five-story-tall giant after being struck by a meteor on her wedding day. Tied up and sedated by the military, she wakes up in a secret facility for sequestering monsters and quickly bonds with her three fellow detainees. The center is run by gung-ho Gen. W.R. Monger (voice of Kiefer Sutherland).

When the wickedly egotistical Galaxhar threatens to slaughter

Heroine Susan Murphy, voiced by Reese Witherspoon, is seen in the animated feature â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monsters vs. Aliens.â&#x20AC;?

earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire population, Susan and her chums are released from captivity and charged with saving humanity.

As she discovers her own heroic potential, Susan becomes disenchanted with her self-centered weatherman fiance, Derek Dietl (voice of Paul Rudd).

Co-directors Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon create a lavish 3-D homage to 1950s-era, sci-fi B-movies. The screenplay â&#x20AC;&#x201C; written by Letterman, Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger from a story by Letterman and Vernon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; celebrates teamwork and friendship as well as Susanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newfound self-confidence.

Along with such inspired moments as B.O.B. flirting with some molded Jell-O, there are a few touches of mildly off-color humor, and the action violence, though moderate, might be too frightening for the smallest kids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monsters vs. Aliensâ&#x20AC;? will be shown on both Imax and conventional screens.

The film contains moderate action violence and a bit of vaguely sexual and slightly crude humor. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II â&#x20AC;&#x201C; adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

Murray Perahiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s piano virtuosity lifts Bach, Beethoven, Brahms

By Father Basil De Pinto It seems like only yesterday but it was almost thirty years ago that a young New York pianist named Murray Perahia made a series of astonishing recordings of Mozart piano concertos. Notable not only for great virtuosity but also for

impeccable taste, this superb artist continues to provide performances that give evidence of constant growth and depth of understanding, as he showed in his recital on March 19 at Zellerbach Hall under the auspices of Cal Performances.

It was while Perahia was playing Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sonata No. 15 in D that this listener was struck by the greatness of the music:

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;A MEDITATION ON FAITH AND FAMILY UNITY.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; United United States States Conference Conference of of Catholic Catholic Bishops Bishops

not the playing, which was unquestionably fine, but by the way the artist led one into the presence of the composer and his work. The pianist seemed to be saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Listen to this music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not to me â&#x20AC;&#x201C;- but to this amazing Murray Perahia creation of a great genius.â&#x20AC;?

There is no false modesty involved here. When an actor or a singer â&#x20AC;&#x153;disappearsâ&#x20AC;? into a role, we never forget the mastery of the interpreter. But we become aware that the artist is above all the servant of a higher master and is bringing us to a shared consciousness of the treasure unfolding before us.

At a time when performers frequently need to convince their audience of the range of their accomplishments, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refreshing to find an artist with the courage to program the three Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. This is a different kind of range: the stylistic differences are so demanding that only a very selfassured pianist would play the three in one evening and hope to do justice to them all. Perahia did that in spades.

There are purists who object to playing Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keyboard PIANO VIRTUOSITY, page 22

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Lenten Opportunities April 5, 10:30 a.m.: 84th Annual Mass Honoring Father Peter Yorke at Holy Cross Cemetery in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. The Mass is sponsored by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco. Franciscan Father Fintan Whelen is celebrant. Pearse & Connolly fife and Drum Bands will lead the procession to Father Yorke’s grave.

Connie and Joe D’Aura April 8, 5:30 p.m.: “Downsizing Impact on Couples: Faith in Practice,” is topic for discussion at monthly meeting of Catholic Professional Business Club at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay at Powell St. in San Francisco. Guest speakers are Connie and Joe D’Aura, married 25 years and today “seeking work at the same time” according to information promoting the event. “Change is a great time to examine values and apply those values to career goals,” the couple said. The D’Auras will share from their “Marriage for Life” course, a recognized marriage preparation program in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Tickets at $30 for non-members and $20 for members include appetizers. Beverages available for purchase. Contact Mary Jansen at jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

April 9, noon: Regular semi-monthly luncheon of the Serra Club of San Francisco at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia St. off Mission Street in San Francisco. Guest speaker is Jeffrey Bialik, new executive director of Catholic Charities CYO. Tickets for lunch are $16. Non-members welcome. Contact: Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or pecrudodds@aol.com.

Through April 5, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Members of San Mateo Pro-life will be praying for an end to abortion during this “40 Days for Life.” The “peaceful prayer vigil” will take place in front of Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo all days during the assigned hours. “All are welcome,” said Jessica Munn, an officer of the pro-life group. Visit www.40daysforlife. com/sanmateo or e-mail fortydaysforlife@yahoo.com or call (650) 572-1468. A “prayerful presence” will also take place at Planned Parenthood, 815 Eddy Street (between Van Ness and Franklin) in San Francisco from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Interested persons may register and volunteer at www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco Taize Prayer: 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults.

Convenient parking is available. For information contact mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 3970113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont. Contact Maria Shao at (408) 839-2068 or maria49830@aol.com or Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or beth@msjdominicans; Fridays during Lent, 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Rd. near El Camino Real in Burlingame.

Call Liz Hannan at (650) 342-1759.

Employment Support Group meets Mondays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City “to share emotional, spiritual, and networking support and hear job search advice from guest speakers.” There is no cost to attend. Call (650) 366-9544 for more information.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco in (415) 567-2020. Ample parking is available free of charge in the Cathedral lot for most events.

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Special Liturgies April 4, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Call (650) 756-2060 or visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

April 19, 9 a.m.: Communion/breakfast Mass, the Young Men’s Institute Council 32 and its Family Auxiliary will be honoring Parishioners of the Year from six neighboring churches including All Souls; Mater Dolorosa; St. Veronica; St. Augustine; St. Bruno; Holy Angels; at All Soul’s Church in South San Francisco.

Price for Breakfast with reservations is $10. Call Bob at (650) 871-7878 or Al (650) 583-2510.

April 19, with Mass at 10:30 a.m.: “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates,” annual liturgy and luncheon for Notre Dame San Francisco Alumnae Association at Mission Dolores Basilica and later at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. near Geneva in San Francisco.

Classes of’34, ’39, ’49, ’59, ’69, and ’79 will be specially honored. Luncheon tickets are $40. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com for more information.

April 4, 6 p.m.: Annual Celebrate Life Dinner at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Guest speaker is Vicki Evans, coordinator of Respect Life programs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco with remarks from Raymond Dennehy, Ph. D., professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, and Thomas Cavanaugh, chairman, University of San Francisco Philosophy Department.

Evans, a doctoral candidate in bioethics, will speak on “Dangers Facing Bioethics Today.” The group’s Human Life Award will be presented to Nora Dougherty for her work in the pro-life cause. Posthumous recognition will be given to Fay Chan Wong for her help in the effort. Tickets are $40 per person and will be available at the door. E-mail cjc3436@yahoo.com or call (415) 824-6541. Sponsored by United for Life.

Cathedral, at 12:40 p.m. in English following the Noon Mass, and in English and Spanish at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call the Cathedral Office at (415) 567-2020 ext. 200 April 7, 5:30 p.m.: The Chrism Mass where sacred Chrism Oil is blessed for all the parishes of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Limited parking in the Cathedral lot is free, additional paid parking available at Japantown garages. For information, contact Patrick Vallez-Kelly (415) 614-5586.

Good Health April 11 and 18, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Free Health Screening by St. Mary’s Medical Center at Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival on Post St. near Laguna in San Francisco’s Japantown. April 11: Screenings for blood pressure, diabetes, and Achilles bone density for women 40 years and older.

April 18: Screenings for Blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and asthma. Doctors will be on hand to answer additional health questions. For more information, e-mail mkilgariff@chw.edu or call (415) 750-5683.

Food & Fun April 4, 9:30 a.m.: The Madonna del Lume Society of Sts. Peter and Paul Church is sponsoring a Pedro tournament to benefit the Blessing of the Fishing Fleet events in October. It will be held at the San Rafael Rod and Gun Club, with registration at 9:30 a.m. The $45.00 admission fee includes lunch and prizes. Contact Marie Lavin at (4l5) 459-9021 for more details.”

April 5, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Old St. Mary’s Church “on the square” in Nicasio will hosts its annual Palm Sunday Brunch at the Druid’s Hall in Nicasio. A country breakfast of farm fresh eggs, hash browns, ham, muffins and pastries, fresh fruit, coffee and tea will be served. No host bar.

There will be a raffle and silent auction of fabulous prizes and gifts. All are welcome! Tickets are available at the door - $15.00 for adults, $5.00 for children (5 through 12) and children under 5 are free. Spend a day in the country and join our rural community for this wonderful event.

April 16, noon: Meeting of St. Thomas More Society at the Banker’s Club, Bank of America Building, 555 California Street. Speaker is Jesuit Father John Coleman with “The Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial” and the issue of reasonable doubt and its origins. MCLE credit will be provided. For more information, visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org, or contact Society

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April 17, 5:30 p.m.: Discarded to Divine Free Sneak Preview Night unites fashion with compassion at the de Young Museum. Donated clothing transformed into original couture creations will be showcased. Auction and fashion show follow May 7 with proceeds benefiting the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco. For more information visit www.discardedtodivine.org April 19, with Mass at 10:30 a.m.: “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates,” annual liturgy and luncheon for Notre Dame San Francisco Alumnae Association at Mission Dolores Basilica and later at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. near Geneva in San Francisco.

Classes of’34, ’39, ’49, ’59, ’69, and ’79 will be specially honored. Luncheon tickets are $40. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com for more information.

April 19, 9 a.m.: Communion/breakfast Mass, the Young Men’s Institute Council 32 and its Family Auxiliary will be honoring Parishioners of the Year from six neighboring churches including All Souls; Mater Dolorosa; St. Veronica; St. Augustine; St. Bruno; Holy Angels; at All Soul’s Church in South San Francisco.

Price for Breakfast with reservations is $10. Call Bob at (650) 871-7878 or Al (650) 583-2510.

April 17, 9 a.m. with 5 p.m. return: Depart for a day in Wine Country with St. Peter’s Pacifica 55 Plus Club. Includes round-trip deluxe motor coach, lunch at Negri’s Restaurant - chicken, soup, pasta, salad, bread, dessert and non-alcohol beverage - and then to Korbel Champagne Cellars and Rose Garden for escorted tour and tasting. Contact Carol Dion @ 650-504-0804.

April 30, 11:30 a.m.: Megan Furth Academy is hosting its 8th Annual Benefit Luncheon, this year honoring Angela and Christopher Cohan of the Golden State Warriors and Warriors Foundation with the Golden Apple Award. Kate Kelly of KPIX CBS 5 serves as emcee. “Invest in our community’s future,” the school said in information promoting the event. “Now more than ever we need your help sponsoring our children in need in San Francisco.” Proceeds benefit students and their families in the Western Addition. Takes place at the Fairmont Hotel, Venetian Room, 950 Mason St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $125. For tickets, more information or to donate, please call (415) 346-0143 or visit meganfurthacademy.org May 7, 6:30 p.m.: Discarded to Divine fashion show and auction unites fashion with compassion at Live!@888 Brannan (formerly the San Francisco Gift Center Pavilion) in San Francisco The event unites Bay Area fashion students and professional designers by

Class of 1959, Presentation High School, San Francisco is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Joanne Camozzi Alkazin at (415) 454-7550 or jalkazin@aol.com.

Class of ’59 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Maria Elena Keizer at (415) 924-9756 or Keizerm@sutterhealth.org April 19, with Mass at 10:30 a.m.: “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates,” annual liturgy and luncheon for Notre Dame San Francisco Alumnae Association at Mission Dolores Basilica and later at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. near Geneva in San Francisco. Classes of’34, ’39, ’49, ’59, ’69, and ’79 will be specially honored. Luncheon tickets are $40. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol. com for more information.

April 26, 11:30 a.m.: The St. Gabriel Alumni Association is hosting a Golden Diploma Reunion for the Class of 1959 beginning with Mass followed by a reception. Alumni from the class of ‘59 should contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or sphelps@ stgabrielsf.com.

Sept. 20 with Mass at noon: Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, class of ’68. Contact Jean Anderson at (650) 756-3395 or jeananders@aol.com.

Sept. 26, 27: St. Elizabeth School in San Francisco marks its 60th anniversary. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of St. Elizabeth Elementary School please mark their calendars for a weekend celebration and e-mail your contact information to stelizabethalumni@yahoo.com to receive detailed information regarding the weekend’s events.

San Francisco’s Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School is ramping up to an all-school reunion in 2011. Alumni, former students, friends should visit www.holyname-sf.org or www.holynamesf.com. Holy Name’s class of ’83 will hold a reunion in December.

Classmates should contact Julie at Julie_popovic@ yahoo.com or Anne at annecarew@yahoo.com. The class of ’72 is also planning an event. Contact Donna at smardypants@comcast.net.

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music on the modern piano, which did not exist in the composer’s time. Perahia has no such qualms and it seems reasonable to suppose that if Bach heard his music played with the technical skill and interpretive artistry of this pianist, he would have no objections either. The Partita No. 6 in E minor belongs to that genre of compositions geared to dance rhythms so loved and familiar in the 18th century. Perahia drew every bit of delicious verve out of the music without neglecting its formal contours.

Beethoven stands midway between the extreme classicism of Bach, with its undoubted softer side, and the full- blown romanticism of Brahms, with its unswerving loyalty to the classic tradition. Perahia is fully attuned to these subtleties; hence the reaction to his playing of the sonata: the composer holds our attention because the pianist sculpts the music with such skill and thus reveals its true value.

In the Handel Variations, Brahms was aware

April 3, 2009 that he was treading on familiar ground where both Bach and Beethoven had preceded him. In this exercise the composer takes a simple tune and subjects it to a series of repetitions, each one a different way of saying the same thing. Tedium is avoided only when the composer has the creative imagination to make each variation a new and original statement of the underlying theme.

The challenge for the performer is to respond in kind, carefully drawing sound pictures that reflect the constantly shifting musical shapes while maintaining continuity with the underlying theme. The special requirement here is the number of variations, 25 in all, capped by a staggeringly difficult fugue, in which four different voices are contrasted and blended to make an end that truly crowns the work. In lesser hands this can seem like technical gameplaying; Perahia made it an artistic achievement that those who heard it will not soon forget.

For more of Murray Perahia’s music, visit www.murrayperahia.com.

Holy Week – EWTN-TV Program Notes Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) special programming during Holy Week includes telecasts of Pope Benedict XVI celebrating Palm Sunday Mass and leading the Way of the Cross on Good Friday.

Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica airs April 5 at 12:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.; Holy Thursday Chrism Mass April 9 at 12:30 a.m.; Mass of the Lord’s Supper April 9 at 8:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.; Commemoration of Pope Benedict will lead the Way of the Lord’s Passion April 10 at 8 a.m. and the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome.

9 p.m.; and the Way of the Cross at the Roman Coliseum April 10 at 5 p.m.

EWTN also will provide live telecasts from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Choral Meditations and the Mass of the Lord’s Supper April 9 at 2:30 p.m., and the Easter Vigil Mass April 11 at 5 p.m.

EWTN airs 24 hours a day on Comcast Channel 229 (Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County); Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261 and Direct TV Channel 370. See www.ewtn.com for more information.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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Prayer For Motherhood O good St. Gerard, powerful intercessor before God and Wonder-worker of our day, I call upon thee and seek thy aid. Thou who on earth didst always fulfill God’s design help me do the Holy Will of God. Beseech the Master of Life, from Whom all paternity proceedeth to render me fruitful in offspring, that I may raise up children to God in this life and heirs to the Kingdom of His glory in the world to come.

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Space has access to kitchen area and restroom facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for immediate occupancy with competitive terms.

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep wins state basketball title Winning the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first state title, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep defeated Ocean View High School of Huntington Beach March 21 at Arco Arena in Sacramento.

The Fighting Irish won the CIF Division III state championship for the first time, finishing the season with a 29-4 record.

Darrell Barbour, in his second year as head coach of menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m extremely proud of our team, they put in the dedication and hard work necessary to get here. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very excited for all of our players.â&#x20AC;?

SHCP menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team reached the state finals for the first time in 2006, but that bid ended in a loss. This year, however, the

Members of the SHCP 2009 CIF Division III championship team are pictured here; (back row, from left): Jerry Brown, Jamal Ford, Conrad Fox, Nate Gartrell, Kevin Greene, Vince Bastidas; (front row, from left) James Hewitson, Karl Reyes, Kenny Cavness, Zach Lau, Daryl Cooper.

Fighting Irish menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team went all the way.

The success of the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team follows the path established by Sacred Heart Cathedral Prepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s women basketball program, which had won three straight state titles prior to this season.

Catholic San Francisco invites you

Benedictine on TV program April 5

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Benedictine Father Eric Hollas guests on the television program â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mosaic,â&#x20AC;? which airs April 5 at 5 a.m. on KPIX-Channel 5. The priest was a principal behind the Saint Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible, the first hand-written, hand illuminated Bible produced in more than 500 years involving calligraphy talent from around the world, as well as local artist Thomas Ingmire.

A Heritage edition of the Bible was presented to Pope Benedict XVI last year.

Locally, benefactors have given the Bible to the Diocese of Oakland, at the new Christ the Light Cathedral, and Santa Clara University. Copies of the book cost as much as $1,000,000 and are donated as designated by donors contributing toward the cost. St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University alumnus, Dan Whalen, and his wife, Katherine, made the gift to the Diocese of Oakland. They are parishioners of St. Theresa Parish there.

Mosaic is a co-production of the Archdiocesan Office of Communications and KPIX-Channel 5.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

April 3, 2009

My Dear People, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, via its Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, has released its annual report of the status of dioceses in regard to their compliance with the Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children, “Promise to Protect; Pledge to Heal.” The Archdiocese of San Francisco has been found to be “compliant.” This evaluation is due to the work of pastors and principals and their staffs and to the cooperation of employees and volunteers who have submitted themselves to the required processes. I appreciate all of you very much for this.

The Catholic Church in the U.S. has been very active in eradicating child sexual abuse as a result of the terrible scandal in our Church that erupted in 2002. However, such abuse continues to be a major societal problem with over 90% of all such abuse occurring in the home. The educational programs we’ve implemented are designed to help adults, and even other children, to recognize abuse and to report it so that further abuse can be prevented and to enable young people to speak up when something uncomfortable happens to them. Our programs were carefully selected and we’ve committed to using them for at least three years before considering changing them. We continue to work at improving the processes used to train and evaluate the backgrounds of adults who work with children. We intend to provide increasing support to our parishes and schools as they do the important work of keeping our children safe. © USCCB

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I urge all of you to support the Archdiocese Office of Child and Youth Protection. This Office relies on every teacher in our Catholic schools and on every catechist in our parish religious education programs to ensure that safety concepts are offered to every child each year. We also need the continued support of all employees and volunteers.

With my thanks for all that you do,

Most Reverend George Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco

What to do if you suspect abuse Anyone who has reason to believe or suspects that a child has been, or is being, abused should report their suspicions first to civil authorities and then to the Archdiocese’s Victim Assistance Coordinator.

Investigation should be left to duly appointed professionals. State law requires persons in certain positions (called “mandated reporters”) to make such reports. Others, (called “ethical reporters”) should do so.

Every allegation will be treated seriously and immediate steps taken to protect the alleged victim(s). These actions will be taken discretely so as to protect the confidentiality and the rights of both the victim and the accused.

Reporting Instructions by County Cases of alleged abuse in which the abuser and the victim are members of the same household are to be reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), while cases in which the alleged victim and the accused do not share a household should be reported to law enforcement authorities (Sheriff’s Department or City Police).

MARIN

SAN FRANCISCO

SAN MATEO

Child Protective Services 415.499.7153

Child Protective Services 415.558.2650

Child Protective Services 650.573-2866

Sheriff’s Department 415.479.2311

Police Department 415.553.0123

Sheriff’s Department 650.363.4911

Note: You can also report abuse to your local Police Department.

A RCHDIOCESE V ICTIM A SSISTANCE C OORDINATOR 415.614.5506 April 3, 2009

SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS

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SAFE ENVIRONMENT The Bishops’ Charter for the protection of children and youth, “Promise to Protect; Pledge to Heal.” defines actions to be taken by each diocese to create a safe environment in our parishes, schools, and other Church-sponsored institutions so that families can be assured that their children are safe when placed in our care. This Safe Environment is achieved by: • Instructing each child in ways to keep themselves safe.

• Training adult employees or volunteers (parish, school, or other institutions) on how to recognize abuse, how to report it to the Church and to civil authority, and how to prevent it.

• Evaluating the background of adult employees or volunteers who have unsupervised contact with minors on behalf of the Church. This evaluation is to be completed prior to their being granted that contact.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

EVALUATION OF BACKGROUNDS

Article 12 of the Bishops’ Charter:

Article 13 of the Bishops’ Charter:

“Dioceses / eparchies are to maintain “safe environment” programs which the diocesan / eparchial bishop deems to be in accord with Catholic moral principles.

They are to be conducted cooperatively with parents, civil authorities, educators, and community organizations to provide education and training for children, youth, parents, ministers, educators, volunteers, and others about ways to make and maintain a safe environment for children and young people. Dioceses / eparchies are to make clear to clergy and all members of the community the standards of conduct for clergy and other persons in positions of trust with regard to children.”

“Dioceses/eparchies are to evaluate the background of all incardinated and non-incardinated priests and deacons who are engaged in ecclesiastical ministry in the diocese/eparchy and of all diocesan/eparchial and parish/school or other paid personnel and volunteers whose duties include ongoing, unsupervised contact with minors. Specifically, they are to utilize the resources of law enforcement and other community agencies. In addition, they are to employ adequate screening and evaluative techniques in deciding the fitness of candidates for ordination.”

PROGRAMS OFFERED IN THE ARCHDIOCESE

The Archdiocese of San Francisco uses two forms of background evaluation in addition to letters of reference from former employers and personal references.

TYPE

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CLERGY (Priests and Deacons – includes candidates)

Recognize, Report & Prevent Child Abuse

STAFF (Paid Employees)

Recognize, Report & Prevent Child Abuse

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Recognize, Report & Prevent Child Abuse

VOLUNTEERS

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STUDENTS (Grades pre-kindergarten - 3)

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STUDENTS (Grades 4 - 8)

Kid Safety – Course varies by Grade Level

STUDENTS (Grades 9 – 12)

Teen Safety

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WWW.SHIELDTHEVULNERABLE.ORG

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers safe environment training for children, youth and their parents, whether the child or youth attends a Catholic school or a parish religious education program. This training is offered either in the classroom, on-line via the Internet, or by using a combination of the two, depending on the age of the participant, and the type of instruction that works best in each case.

➢ “Talking About Touching” This is a personal safety curriculum for pre-kindergarten through third grade children. Teachers and parents learn to provide rules for children and skill practice in common safety rules. They also teach the children how to ask for help when feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.

➢ “Kid Safety” This is an individual, interactive online course for grades 4 - 8. Children learn how to identify different types of harm and how to get help, grow in understanding of personal boundaries, and how to practice safe Internet use. This course is found on the internet at www.shieldthevulnerable.org.

➢ “Teen Safety” This is an individual, interactive on-line course for grades 9-12. Youth learn to identify different types of harm, deal with physical and sexual violence, enforce personal boundaries, practice safe internet use, understand relationships with adults, reject negative media influences and understand the importance of respecting the dignity of self and others. This course can also be found at www.shieldthevulnerable.org.

Note: Parents are encouraged to take any of these online training courses with their child.

ADULTS Any adult who has contact with children or youth on behalf of the Church is to be trained using an on-line program entitled “Recognize, Report, and Prevent Child Abuse.” This program is available at www.shieldthevulnerable.org in both English and Spanish. No one is to be given access to children on behalf of the Church without first having fulfilled this training requirement.

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“Recognize, Report, and Prevent Child Abuse”

This is an individualized, interactive on-line training course that educates Archdiocesan employees and volunteers who have contact with minors on how to recognize signs of abuse and neglect. This is also found on www.shieldthevulnerable.org.

ELECTRONIC FINGER-PRINTING (also known as LIVE SCAN) While the Charter only requires each diocese to “evaluate the background” of those who have “ongoing, unsupervised contact with minors,” California law requires that certificated teachers and other school employees have their backgrounds evaluated using electronic finger-printing. The Archdiocese requires certain other employees (including clergy and candidates to be clergy) and/or volunteers to be finger-printed based on the amount or intensity of their contact with minors. The information returned in this type of background evaluation is not deemed superior to that developed by other means, but the relationship of all the information to the identified person is more assured as it is related to finger-prints which are not duplicated from one individual to another.

DEMOGRAPHIC DATA–BASED BACKGROUND EVALUATIONS Other employees and volunteers who have on-going, unsupervised contact with minors have their backgrounds evaluated using “demographic-based electronic background checking.” These checks are sometimes called simply “name-based background checks.” They are less expensive but do not provide the surety of individual identity that is provided by the electronic finger-printing process. These evaluations are done by professional firms specializing in this work. They involve internet searches of applicable databases using the potential employee/volunteer’s personal identity information (name, birthdate, drivers license number, social security number, etc).

ALLOWABLE EXCEPTIONS: Occasionally an individual’s finger-prints are not “readable” electronically, due to inadequate “ridges.” An annotation will be made in that individual’s record in the Archdiocesan database, and the individual will have their background evaluated using the demographic data-based search methodology.

Background evaluations of minors volunteering in adult roles or of undocumented immigrants do not produce useful results, These individuals must be supervised by a fully compliant adult at all times when in contact with minors.

RESPONDING TO VICTIMS Article 1 of the Bishops’ Charter: “Dioceses / eparchies are to reach out to victims/survivors and their families and demonstrate a sincere commitment to their spiritual and emotional well-being. The first obligation of the Church with regard to the victims is for healing and reconciliation. Each diocese / eparchy is to continue its outreach to every person who has been the victim of sexual abuse as a minor by anyone in church service, whether the abuse was recent or occurred many years in the past. This outreach may include provision of counseling, spiritual assistance, support groups, and other social services agreed upon by the victim and the diocese / eparchy.

Through pastoral outreach to victims and their families, the diocesan/eparchial bishop or his representative is to offer to meet with them, to listen with patience and compassion to their experiences and concerns, and to share the ‘profound sense of solidarity and concern’ expressed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, in his Address to the Cardinals of the United States and Conference Officers, April 23, 2002.”

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has established the position of “Victim Assistance Coordinator” who can be reached at (415) 614-5506. This person, working closely with the Vicar for Clergy, the Archbishop, and the Independent Review Board, coordinates activities of the diocese to support victims and their families as called for in the Charter. Other steps may be taken as deemed necessary or supportive by the Archbishop.

INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD Archbishop Neiderauer has identified a group of well educated and highly skilled professionals to advise the Archdiocese on all matters relating to abuse by clergy. This group includes a psychologist (Dr. Suznne McDonnell Giraudo), a pediatrician (Dr. Eileen G. Aicardi), an attorney (Sr. Mary Gemma O’Keeffe, RSM), a retired judge (Honorable Raymond Williamson), a retired professional investigator (Ms. Janice R. McKay) and one pastor (Fr. John Ryan). There is a balance of men and women and most members are also parents.

The board oversees the “Safe Environment” program of the Archdiocese and has acted as a consultant to religious orders of priests. The Vicar for Clergy and the Archbishop meet regularly with this Board. The Victim Assistance Coordinator, the Diocesan Attorney, and the Judicial Vicar serve in an ex officio capacity.

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OUR NEWEST SAFETY PROGRAM – “KID SAFETY”

A RCHDIOCESE V ICTIM A SSISTANCE C OORDINATOR

415.614.5506

Contact Deacon John Norris, Director of the Office of Child and Youth Protection for additional information: norrisj@sfarchdiocese.org or 415.614.5504